Empathic Accuracy in Adolescent Girls with Turner Syndrome

• DOI: 10.1007/s10803-021-05089-3
• Publication Date: 2021-06-03T12:03:21Z
• Authors: M. Klabunde; A. Piccirilli; J. Bruno; M. Gendron; A. L. Reiss
• Keywords: Turner's syndrome; Adolescent Development

To examine the potential mechanisms underlying social deficits in Turner Syndrome, we administered empathic accuracy task (EAT) -a naturalistic cognition task- and a (control) visual-motor line-tracking to 14 girls with TS was compared 12 age-matched typically developing (TD; ages 17). Empathic across positive negative emotionally valanced videos. We found that differs from TD on ratings for videos; no differences were detected videos or control line tracking task. Thus, our findings suggest impaired detection of negatively interactions may help inform future development social-cognition treatment strategies TS.