ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2017
Formal Thought Disorder and Executive Functioning in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Old Leads and New Avenues.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia: An updated conceptual review.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Pooled it
- Response Inhibition in Autistic Children Predicts Positive Psychotic Symptoms in Young Adulthood-Results from an 8-Year Follow-up Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- The Neurobiology of Formal Thought Disorder.Current topics in medicinal chemistry · 2024Review
- Executive and motor function in children with autism spectrum disorder.Cognitive processing · 2023Article
- Reported autism diagnosis is associated with psychotic-like symptoms in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2022Article
- Autistic traits in psychotic disorders: prevalence, familial risk, and impact on social functioning.Psychological medicine · 2021Article
- Autism Symptoms, Executive Functioning and Academic Progress in Higher Education Students.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- The Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome and Facial Affect Processing in Adolescents With and Without Autism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Impairments in cognitive empathy and alexithymia occur independently of executive functioning in college students with autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2019Article
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Abstract
Formal thought disorder (FTD) is a disruption in the flow of thought and a common feature in psychotic disorders and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Executive dysfunction has often been associated with FTD, yet for ASD convincing evidence is lacking. This study investigated FTD and three core executive functions in 50 young children and adolescents with high-functioning ASD and 56 matched controls. Higher overall levels of FTD marked ASD compared to controls. Furthermore, in ASD decreased performance on verbal working memory was correlated with increased FTD ratings and explained a significant amount of variance of objective and subjective FTD. Verbal working memory is currently the most promising target executive function for understanding the development of idiosyncratic thought disorders in ASD.
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