Judgements of social inappropriateness in adults with Tourette's syndrome.
Cogn Neuropsychiatry
; 17(3): 246-61, 2012 May.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Socially inappropriate behaviour has frequently been reported in Tourette's syndrome (TS), but has not been studied experimentally. The current study was designed to examine the appropriateness of self-disclosures in TS using an emotional self-disclosure task.METHODS:
Adult participants with TS-alone (20) and matched controls (20) were compared on two social judgement tasks, one examining the regulation of behaviour in an emotional self-disclosure task requiring participants to generate examples of autobiographical events, and the other examining mentalistic judgement of others' behaviour on a faux pas task.RESULTS:
Those with TS-alone and controls showed no group differences for judges' or participants' ratings of inappropriateness on the self-disclosure task, although only the self-ratings of the control group corresponded to the judges' ratings. On the faux pas task, those with TS-alone were impaired relative to controls in detecting socially inappropriate behaviour. There was also some evidence of executive dysfunction in the TS-alone group.CONCLUSIONS:
TS-alone is linked to a mixed pattern of preserved and impaired performance on social cognition measures, and further work is needed to determine the contributions of social and/or executive contributions to everyday functioning.
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Assunto principal:
Comportamento Social
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Percepção Social
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Síndrome de Tourette
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Julgamento
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article