Autistic Traits and Symptoms of Social Anxiety are Differentially Related to Attention to Others’ Eyes in Social Anxiety Disorder

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and social anxiety disorder (SAD) have partly overlapping symptoms. Gaze avoidance has been linked to both SAD and ASD, but little is known about differences in social attention between the two conditions. We studied eye movements in a group of treatment-seeking adoles...

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Autores principales: Kleberg, Johan Lundin, Högström, Jens, Nord, Martina, Bölte, Sven, Serlachius, Eva, Falck-Ytter, Terje
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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S.I. : Anxiety in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28000078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2978-z
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author Kleberg, Johan Lundin
Högström, Jens
Nord, Martina
Bölte, Sven
Serlachius, Eva
Falck-Ytter, Terje
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description Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and social anxiety disorder (SAD) have partly overlapping symptoms. Gaze avoidance has been linked to both SAD and ASD, but little is known about differences in social attention between the two conditions. We studied eye movements in a group of treatment-seeking adolescents with SAD (N = 25), assessing SAD and ASD dimensionally. The results indicated a double dissociation between two measures of social attention and the two symptom dimensions. Controlling for social anxiety, elevated autistic traits were associated with delayed orienting to eyes presented among distractors. In contrast, elevated social anxiety levels were associated with faster orienting away from the eyes, when controlling for autistic traits. This distinction deepens our understanding of ASD and SAD.
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spelling pubmed-56768292017-11-21 Autistic Traits and Symptoms of Social Anxiety are Differentially Related to Attention to Others’ Eyes in Social Anxiety Disorder Kleberg, Johan Lundin Högström, Jens Nord, Martina Bölte, Sven Serlachius, Eva Falck-Ytter, Terje J Autism Dev Disord S.I. : Anxiety in Autism Spectrum Disorders Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and social anxiety disorder (SAD) have partly overlapping symptoms. Gaze avoidance has been linked to both SAD and ASD, but little is known about differences in social attention between the two conditions. We studied eye movements in a group of treatment-seeking adolescents with SAD (N = 25), assessing SAD and ASD dimensionally. The results indicated a double dissociation between two measures of social attention and the two symptom dimensions. Controlling for social anxiety, elevated autistic traits were associated with delayed orienting to eyes presented among distractors. In contrast, elevated social anxiety levels were associated with faster orienting away from the eyes, when controlling for autistic traits. This distinction deepens our understanding of ASD and SAD. Springer US 2016-12-20 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5676829/ /pubmed/28000078 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2978-z Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle S.I. : Anxiety in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Kleberg, Johan Lundin
Högström, Jens
Nord, Martina
Bölte, Sven
Serlachius, Eva
Falck-Ytter, Terje
Autistic Traits and Symptoms of Social Anxiety are Differentially Related to Attention to Others’ Eyes in Social Anxiety Disorder
title Autistic Traits and Symptoms of Social Anxiety are Differentially Related to Attention to Others’ Eyes in Social Anxiety Disorder
title_full Autistic Traits and Symptoms of Social Anxiety are Differentially Related to Attention to Others’ Eyes in Social Anxiety Disorder
title_fullStr Autistic Traits and Symptoms of Social Anxiety are Differentially Related to Attention to Others’ Eyes in Social Anxiety Disorder
title_full_unstemmed Autistic Traits and Symptoms of Social Anxiety are Differentially Related to Attention to Others’ Eyes in Social Anxiety Disorder
title_short Autistic Traits and Symptoms of Social Anxiety are Differentially Related to Attention to Others’ Eyes in Social Anxiety Disorder
title_sort autistic traits and symptoms of social anxiety are differentially related to attention to others’ eyes in social anxiety disorder
topic S.I. : Anxiety in Autism Spectrum Disorders
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28000078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2978-z
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