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Description:: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable, neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social impairments and restricted and repetitive behaviors (American Psychiatric Association, 2013; Tick, Bolton, Happe, Rutter, & Rijsdijk, 2016), with a subset of first-degree relatives demonstrating a constellation of subclinical traits that are qualitatively similar to the defining features of...
Keyword:: Eye-tracking, Autism, and Fragile X Syndrome
Subject:: Clinical psychology
Creator:: Winston, Molly
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_920056 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16172

Description:: Background: The way in which one perceives their visual world (i.e., bottom-up visual perception) and what one pays attention to in their surroundings (i.e., top-down attention), are critical to uncovering underlying thoughts and cognitions, and impact how one operates in the social world. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a...
Keyword:: Eye tracking, Broad Autism Phenotype, Autism, Endophenotype, Local Global Processing, and EEG/ERP
Subject:: Cognitive psychology, Psychobiology, and Neurosciences
Creator:: Nayar, Kritika
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_898041 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16008

Description:: Contactin associated protein like 2 (CNTNAP2) has emerged as a prominent susceptibility gene implicated in multiple complex neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorders (ASD), intellectual disability (ID), and schizophrenia (SCZ). The presence of seizure comorbidity in many of these cases, as well as inhibitory neuron dysfunction in Cntnap2 knockout (KO)...
Keyword:: Epilepsy, Dendrites, Autism, CASK, CNTNAP2, and Interneurons
Subject:: Physiology, Molecular biology, and Neurosciences
Creator:: Gao, Ruoqi
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14243 and etdadmin_upload_595693

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