| Literature DB >> 16575542 |
Sylvie Verté1, Hilde M Geurts, Herbert Roeyers, Jaap Oosterlaan, Joseph A Sergeant.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate whether children with high-functioning autism (HFA), Asperger's syndrome (AS), and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDDNOS) can be differentiated from each other and from normal controls on their neurocognitive executive functioning (EF) profile. Children with HFA and AS showed the most EF deficits. The EF profile of the PDDNOS group was more disturbed that the normal control group, but was less disturbed than the profile of the HFA and AS groups. Little difference was found between the three PDD subtypes with respect to EF. This study supports the view that executive dysfunctioning plays an important role in autism. The usefulness of a distinction between different PDD subtypes was not demonstrated.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16575542 DOI： 10.1007/s10803-006-0074-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Autism Dev Disord ISSN： 0162-3257