Poor Facial Affect Recognition among Boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Children with Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy (MD) have delayed language and poor social skills and some meet criteria for Pervasive Developmental Disorder, yet they are identified by molecular, rather than behavioral, characteristics. To determine whether comprehension of facial affect is com...

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Published in:Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2007-11, Vol.37 (10), p.1925-1933
Main Authors: Hinton, V. J, Fee, R. J, De Vivo, D. C, Goldstein, E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affect
Affective Behavior
Aptitude
Autism
Behavior
Behavior Patterns
Biological and medical sciences
Brain
Child
Child clinical studies
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - diagnosis
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - genetics
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - psychology
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Comparative Analysis
Comprehension
Developmental disorders
Discrimination Learning
Diseases of striated muscles. Neuromuscular diseases
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Etiology
Facial Expression
Facial expressions
Genetics
Humans
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal Relationship
Language Impairments
Male
Males
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Muscular dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne - genetics
Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne - psychology
Neurology
Neuropsychological Tests
Nonverbal Communication
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Personal Construct Theory
Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Phenotype
Phenotypes
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Recognition (Psychology)
Siblings
Social Environment
Social Responsibility
Social skills
Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Visual recognition
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Summary:Children with Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy (MD) have delayed language and poor social skills and some meet criteria for Pervasive Developmental Disorder, yet they are identified by molecular, rather than behavioral, characteristics. To determine whether comprehension of facial affect is compromised in boys with MD, children were given a matching-to-sample test with four types of visual recognition (Object, Face, Affect, and Situation matching) developed by Lucci and Fein. Within-group analyses on 50 boys with MD found decreased Affect matching relative to the other matching conditions. Between-group comparisons on 20 sibling pairs found the boys with Duchenne performed more poorly only on the Affect-matching condition. Thus, mildly impaired facial affect recognition may be part of the phenotype associated with Duchenne or Becker MD.
ISSN:0162-3257
1573-3432
DOI:10.1007/s10803-006-0325-5