ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2022
Qualitative Differences in Attribution of Mental States to Other People in Autism and Schizophrenia: What are the Tools for Differential Diagnosis?
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- Moral Decision-Making, Machiavellianism, and Social Cognition in Autism: An Exploratory Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Ins and Outs of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Intervention in Promoting Social Communicative Abilities and Theory of Mind in Children and Adolescents with ASD: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Age-period-cohort analysis of autism spectrum disorders-related prevalence and DALYs: based on the Global Burden Of Disease Study 2021.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Does ChatGPT have a typical or atypical theory of mind?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Adolescents with autism spectrum disorder exhibit intact physical causal inference but weak intention inference.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Autism and intention attribution test: a non-verbal evaluation with comic strips.Annals of general psychiatry · 2023Article
- Neuropsychological profile of executive functions in autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a comparative group study in adults.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Towards a comprehensive approach to mentalization-based treatment for children with autism: integrating attachment, neurosciences, and mentalizing.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Recognizing Psychosis in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
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Abstract
The differential diagnosis between schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) remains an important clinical question, because they have overlap in clinical diagnosis. This study explored the differences between ASD (n = 44) and SSD patients (n = 59), compared to typically developing peers (n = 63), in completing an advanced Theory of Mind (ToM) task. The outcome found several differences between groups. The SSD patients showed greater difficulty in understanding social scenarios, while ASD individuals understood the stories, but did not correctly identify the protagonist's intention. The interesting aspect of the results is that some ToM stories are more informative about the mentalistic reasoning of the two clinical groups, namely, the stories that investigate pretend, persuasion, double bluff and ironic joke constructs.
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