Empathic Accuracy in Adolescent Girls with Turner Syndrome

M Klabunde; A Piccirilli; J Bruno; M Gendron; A L Reiss

doi:10.1007/s10803-021-05089-3

Empathic Accuracy in Adolescent Girls with Turner Syndrome

J Autism Dev Disord. 2022 May;52(5):2203-2212. doi: 10.1007/s10803-021-05089-3. Epub 2021 Jun 3.

Authors

M Klabunde¹, A Piccirilli², J Bruno², M Gendron³, A L Reiss^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology and Centre for Brain Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, C04 3SQ, UK. m.klabunde@essex.ac.uk.
² Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

Abstract

To examine the potential mechanisms underlying social deficits in Turner Syndrome, we administered the empathic accuracy task (EAT) -a naturalistic social cognition task- and a (control) visual-motor line-tracking task to 14 girls with TS was compared to 12 age-matched typically developing girls (TD; ages 12 to 17). Empathic accuracy was compared across positive and negative emotionally valanced videos. We found that TS differs from TD on empathic accuracy ratings for negative videos; no differences were detected for the positive videos or for the control line tracking task. Thus, our findings suggest impaired detection of negatively valanced empathic interactions in TS and may help inform the future development of social-cognition treatment strategies for girls with TS.

Keywords: Empathy; Social cognition and neurogenetic disorders; Theory of mind; Turner syndrome.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Autism Spectrum Disorder*
Child
Empathy
Female
Humans
Male
Psychomotor Performance
Turner Syndrome* / psychology

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