Poor social skills in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are associated with reduced independence daily life. Current interventions for improving the of individuals ASD fail to represent complexity real-life settings and situations. Virtual reality (VR) may facilitate training environments situations similar those real life; however, more research is needed elucidate aspects such as acceptability, usability, user experience VR systems ASD. Twenty-five participants attended a neuropsychological...

Abstract Background Co-occurring psychiatric disorders in adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and/or Autism Spectrum (ASD) contribute to the burden of healthcare and possibly delay diagnosis. Aim study was clinically assess prevalence compare lifetime co-occurring psychopathology a sample newly diagnosed ADHD ASD discuss diagnostic challenges they pose. Methods The rates ten most frequently diagnoses registered 336 normal intelligence who underwent thorough clinical...

This study assessed the co-occurrence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum (ASD) in newly diagnosed adults normal intelligence contribution trait-based dimensions deriving from Barkley Adult ADHD Rating Scale-IV (BAARS-IV), Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), Empathy (EQ) to differentiation patients with ADHD, ASD, ADHD/ASD. A total 16.1% received a co-occurring ASD diagnosis, while 33.3% an diagnosis. Subjects or ADHD/ASD had higher scores all traits compared...

<p>Poor social skills in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are associated with reduced independence daily life. Current interventions for improving the of individuals ASD fail to represent complexity real-life settings and situations. Virtual reality (VR) may facilitate training environments situations proximal real life, however, more research is needed elucidating aspects such as acceptability, usability, user experience VR systems ASD. Twenty-five participants attended a...

<p>Poor social skills in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are associated with reduced independence daily life. Current interventions for improving the of individuals ASD fail to represent complexity real-life settings and situations. Virtual reality (VR) may facilitate training environments situations proximal real life, however, more research is needed elucidating aspects such as acceptability, usability, user experience VR systems ASD. Twenty-five participants attended a...

Background Several theories in autism posit that common aspects of the phenotype may be manifestations an underlying differentiation predictive abilities. The present study investigates this hypothesis context strategic decision making autistic participants compared to a control group. Method Autistic individuals (43 adults, 35 male) and comparison group (42 age gender matched individuals, played modified version prisoner’s dilemma (PD) task where they were asked, if capable, predict their...

Computational approaches examine momentary changes in mood relation to the environment. These studies have shown that various factors including participants’ past and previous experiences as well contingencies between environment, could determine mood’s future responses stimuli. However, several their influence on remain unexplored. The aim of this study is investigate how availability sources for reward would positive negative For this, a new task was developed where different number...

Poor social skills in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are associated with reduced independence daily life. Current interventions for improving the of individuals ASD fail to represent complexity real-life settings and situations. Virtual reality (VR) may facilitate training environments situations proximal real life, however, more research is needed elucidating aspects such as acceptability, usability, user experience VR systems ASD. Twenty-five participants attended a neuropsychological...

Poor social skills in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are associated with reduced independence daily life. Current interventions for improving the of individuals ASD fail to represent complexity real-life settings and situations. Virtual reality (VR) may facilitate training environments situations proximal real life, however, more research is needed elucidating aspects such as acceptability, usability, user experience VR systems ASD. Twenty-five participants attended a neuropsychological...

According to influential theories about mood, exposure environments characterized by specific patterns of punishments and rewards could shape mood response future stimuli. This raises the intriguing possibility that be trained controlled environments. The aim present study is investigate experimental settings increase resilience negative For this study, a new task was developed where participants register their when are added or subtracted from score. conducted online, using Amazon MTurk,...

The emotion of disgust evolved as a way to protect oneself from illness and is associated with aspects disease avoidance. Disgust Scale-Revised (DS-R) (Olatunji et al., 2008) measures the propensity three kinds (core, animal reminder, contamination). Contextual factors, such academic background, might influence DS-R scoring, especially among medical students, where notion central. We examined scoring choice postgraduate studies in (n = 94) psychology 97) students. In an anonymous web-based...

Affect dysregulation refers to maladaptive patterns of emotional regulation that impair daily life functioning, common in many psychiatric disorders. It is expressed with the form affective lability, an construct composed frequent and intense fluctuations emotion response both pleasant unpleasant events or interpretations events. The Affective Lability Scale (ALS) a widely used self-reporting questionnaire measures tendency emotions shift from one another as well their oscillate between...

Prisoner's dilemma is one of the most popular concepts among scientific literature. In medical literature majority prisoner's experiments with human participants implement computerized means. Despite this, there no shared validated tool for tasks.The application developed in Javascript programming language and makes use pixijs library WebGL rendering. To create a custom trial, set variables have to be set. These refer linguistics, user controls, available choices, computer strategy,...

Abstract Background: Co-occurring psychiatric disorders in adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and/or Autism Spectrum (ASD) contribute to the burden of healthcare and possibly delay diagnosis. Aim study was clinically assess prevalence compare lifetime co-occurring psychopathology a sample newly diagnosed ADHD ASD discuss diagnostic challenges they pose.Methods: The rates ten most frequently diagnoses registered 336 normal intelligence who underwent thorough clinical...

Poor social skills in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are associated with reduced independence daily life. Current interventions for improving the of individuals ASD fail to represent complexity real-life settings and situations. Virtual reality (VR) may facilitate training environments situations proximal real life, however, more research is needed elucidating aspects such as acceptability, usability, user experience VR systems ASD. Twenty-five participants attended a neuropsychological...

The fast, intuitive and autonomous system 1 along with the slow, analytical more logical 2 constitute dual processing model of decision making. Whether acting independently or influencing each other both systems would, to an extent, rely on randomness in order reach a decision. role randomness, however, would be pronounced when arbitrary choices need made, typically engaging 1. present exploratory study aims capture expression possible innate mechanism, as proposed by authors, trying isolate...

Disgust evolved as a way to protect one’s self from illness. DS-R measures disgust propensity of three kinds (Core, Animal Reminder and Contamination). Although the scale was refined mainly with young largely female student population its impact on educational orientation has not been assessed. In present study we examined scoring choice postgraduate studies in medical (n= 94) psychology 97) students. They responded an anonymous web-based survey completed questionnaire their...

Abstract Background Co-occurring psychiatric disorders in adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and/or Autism Spectrum (ASD) contribute to the burden of healthcare and possibly delay diagnosis. Aim study was clinically assess prevalence compare lifetime co-occurring psychopathology a sample newly diagnosed ADHD ASD discuss diagnostic challenges they pose.Methods The rates ten most frequently diagnoses registered 336 normal intelligence who underwent thorough clinical...

Introduction: The fast, intuitive and autonomous system 1 along with the slow, analytical more logical 2 constitute dual processing model of decision making. Whether acting independently or influencing each other both systems would, to an extent, rely on randomness in order reach a decision. role however, would be pronounced when arbitrary choices need made, typically engaging 1. present exploratory study aims capture expression possible innate mechanism, as proposed by authors, trying...

According to influential theories about mood, exposure environments characterized by specific patterns of punishments and rewards could shape mood response future stimuli. This raises the intriguing possibility that be trained controlled environments. The aim present study is investigate experimental settings increase resilience negative We developed a new task where participants register their when are added or subtracted from score. examined sixteen with different mood-reward...