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The ''Reading the Mind in the Eyes'' Test Revised Version: A Study with Normal Adults, and Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High-functioning Autism
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The Revised Eyes Test has improved power to detect subtle individual differences in social sensitivity and was inversely correlated with the Autism Spectrum Quotient (the AQ), a measure of autistic traits in adults of normal intelligence.Abstract:
In 1997 in this Journal we published the ‘‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’’ Test, as a measure of adult ‘‘mentalising’’. Whilst that test succeeded in discriminating a group of adults with Asperger syndrome (AS) or high-functioning autism (HFA) from controls, it suered from several psychometric problems. In this paper these limitations are rectified by revising the test. The Revised Eyes Test was administered to a group of adults with AS or HFA (N fl 15) and again discriminated these from a large number of normal controls (N fl 239) drawn from dierent samples. In both the clinical and control groups the Eyes Test was inversely correlated with the Autism Spectrum Quotient (the AQ), a measure of autistic traits in adults of normal intelligence. The Revised Eyes Test has improved power to detect subtle individual dierences in social sensitivity.read more
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The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" test: systematic review of psychometric properties and a validation study in Italy.
Marcello Vellante,Simon Baron-Cohen,Mariangela Melis,Matteo Marrone,Donatella Rita Petretto,Carmelo Masala,Antonio Preti +6 more
TL;DR: Both internal consistency and test–retest stability were good for the Italian version of the Eyes test, and scores were not related to social desirability.
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A Social Adjustment Enhancement Intervention for High Functioning Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder NOS.
TL;DR: The curriculum was designed to address three areas hypothesized to be deficient in persons with HFA, AS, and PDDNOS: emotion recognition and understanding; theory of mind; and executive functions/real life type problem solving.
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The Cambridge Mindreading (CAM) Face-Voice Battery: Testing complex emotion recognition in adults with and without Asperger syndrome.
TL;DR: A new battery of tasks was given to males and females with Asperger Syndrome, testing recognition of 20 complex emotions and mental states from faces and voices, showing the AS group performed worse than controls overall, on emotion recognition from Faces and voices and on 12/20 specific emotions.
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Acquired theory of mind impairments in individuals with bilateral amygdala lesions
TL;DR: The first evidence of theory ofMind deficits following amygdala damage acquired in adulthood is presented, indicating that the amygdala's critical role in theory of mind may not be just in development, but also in "on-line" theory ofmind processing in the adult brain.
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Intranasal oxytocin versus placebo in the treatment of adults with autism spectrum disorders: a randomized controlled trial
Evdokia Anagnostou,Evdokia Anagnostou,Latha Soorya,Latha Soorya,William F. Chaplin,Jennifer A. Bartz,Danielle Halpern,Stacey Wasserman,A. Ting Wang,Lauren Pepa,Nadia Tanel,Azadeh Kushki,Eric Hollander +12 more
TL;DR: This pilot study suggests that there is therapeutic potential to daily administration of intranasal oxytocin in adults with ASD and that larger and longer studies are warranted.
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