Autism and Social Impairment

Question 1

Cheng et al (2015)

Answer 1

Autistic children have decreased functional connectivity between the cortex and the medial temporal gyrus which relates to defecits in recognising facial expressions and social behaviour

Question 2

Schaafsma et al (2015)

Answer 2

Neuroimagine studies on ToM are often too underpowered to look at task specific interactions due to the high homogeneity in the methods used to examine neural correlates of ToM

Question 3

Wing and Gould (1979)

Answer 3

Triad of impairments
Social impairment
Communicative impairment
Restrictive behaviours

Question 4

Mazza et al (2017)

Answer 4

Conducted a mediation analysis and found that autistic children had defecits in both ToM and social competancy
ToM is required to build social competancy so ToM defecit explains social impairment in autism