ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2017
Callous-unemotional traits moderate executive function in children with ASD and ADHD: A pilot event-related potential study.
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- The relationship between psychopathy and autism: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Callous-Unemotional Traits and Their Association with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Insights from Gaze Behaviour During Emotion Recognition.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The discriminate value of event-related potentials in executive function of ADHD and comorbidity of ADHD and ASD.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Callous unemotional traits mediate the presence of challenging behaviors in adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Article
- Callous-unemotional traits in Chinese preschool children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2021Article
- Callous-Unemotional Traits among Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, or Typical Development: Differences between Adolescents' and Parents' Views.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and Disruptive Behavior Disorders Comorbidities Delineate Clinical Phenotypes in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Novel Insights from the Assessment of Psychopathological and Neuropsychological Profiles.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
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- Adolescent-Parent Agreement on Callous-Unemotional Traits in Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Studying global processing in autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with gaze movements: The example of a copying task.PloS one · 2020Article
- Reduced Amygdala-Prefrontal Functional Connectivity in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Co-occurring Disruptive Behavior.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2019Article
- Infant regulatory function acts as a protective factor for later traits of autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder but not callous unemotional traits.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2019Review
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- Longitudinal Links between Executive Function, Anger, and Aggression in Middle Childhood.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
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- Erratum issuedErratum.2020
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Abstract
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are associated with varied executive function (EF) difficulties. Callous-unemotional (CU) traits, a proposed antecedent of adult psychopathy, are often associated with intact or enhanced EF. Here we test whether CU traits may therefore modulate EF in ASD and ADHD, in which EF is typically impaired. We collected CU traits and measured event-related potentials (ERPs) that index EF during a cued-continuous performance test (CPT-OX) in boys with ASD, ADHD, comorbid ASD+ADHD and typical controls. We examined attentional orienting at cues (Cue-P3), inhibitory processing at non-targets (NoGo-P3) and conflict monitoring between target and non-target trials (Go-N2 vs. NoGo-N2). In children with ASD, higher CU traits were associated with an enhanced increase in N2 amplitude in NoGo trials compared to Go trials, which suggests relatively superior conflict monitoring and a potential cognitive strength associated with CU traits. The results emphasise the importance of considering the effects of co-occurring traits in the assessment of heterogeneity of EF profiles in neurodevelopmental disorders.
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