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The absence of cradling bias in autism spectrum disorders: illustrating deflicits in basic empathis processes

Author: Pileggi, Lea-Ann Date: 2011 Deficits in empathy are considered a defining characteristic of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). A fundamental difficulty these individuals experience is that of relating to others. Impairments in both top-down and bottom-up processes ... Read more
Afrikaans autism diagnostic observation schedule-2 : translation and cultural appropriateness for the coloured population from low-middle socioeconomic backgrounds living in the Western Cape

Author: Smith, Lesia Date: 2015 One of the key needs in diagnostic practice for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in South Africa is to generate acceptable and valid diagnostic tools for use in the official languages of the country. The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-2 ... Read more
Attachment and Emotion Regulation in Adolescents with FAS-Dysmorphism

Author: Kemp, Andrea Date: 2021 Children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are frequently reported by caregivers and teachers to have difficulties in socio-emotional functioning. It has been suggested that deficits in emotion regulation underlie these deficits ... Read more
Attachment styles, parenting styles and theory of mind: an exploration of their relationships with social deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Author: Bailey, Nakeeta Catherine Date: 2016 Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is fundamentally characterised by social deficits. It is thus important to understand social functioning and what contributes to social development in children on the spectrum. It is widely accepted that ASD has ... Read more
Autism screening in children: using the social communication questionnaire in a Western Cape population

Author: Bozalek, Faye Date: 2013 Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a global prevalence of approximately one percent of all new births. There is a lack of literature on autism in South Africa. South African children are waiting years for diagnoses, despite the fact that early ... Read more
Blushing and gaze avoidance in social anxiety disorder : a structural neuroanatomical investigation

Author: Van der Merwe, Nicolina Thandiwe Date: 2014 Background: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common psychiatric condition characterised by fear and avoidance of social situations. Lifetime prevalence is 5-16% and co-morbidity with other mood and substance abuse disorders is common. ... Read more
Does mood induction elicit emotion recognition biases? : an empirical study with implications for depression research

Author: Harding, Steven Date: 2015 Depression is a highly prevalent, debilitating, and sometimes-fatal mental illness. Typically, its treatment approaches are conceptualised as a dichotomy between psychological and pharmaceutical. However, a new model, in line with cogent ... Read more
Effortful Control, Attention and Executive Functioning in the Context of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Author: Page, Teneille Date: 2019 Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) involves a broad presentation of symptoms classified along continuum of severity, with core deficits in Social Affect and Restricted, Repetitive Behaviours required for formal diagnosis (American Psychiatric ... Read more
Empathy in autism spectrum disorder: Predictions from child/adolescent temperament, parenting styles, and parenting stress

Author: Ross, Toni Carmen Faith Date: 2019 Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit definitional impairments in social relatedness; a phenomenon that can be explained, in part, by their deficits in empathy. Despite the extent of these deficits, relatively little is known ... Read more
Epistemic action and language : a cross-linguistic study

Author: King, Warren Date: 2008 Epistemic actions are physical actions which increase the speed, accuracy, and/or robustness of internal computation by allowing cognitive work to be off-loaded to the environment, thus simplifying internal computation. Previous studies on ... Read more
Euphoria in multiple sclerosis: an investigation of constructs and symptons

Author: Duncan, Amy Louise Date: 2014 In multiple sclerosis (MS), some patients are said to present with unawareness of deficit, and positive mood and optimism that is out of place or incongruous given the patient's circumstances. The history of these symptoms, collectively known ... Read more
Examining empathy in Autism Spectrum Disorders: cognitive, subjective and physiological correlates of the perception of pain

Author: Hoogenhout, Michelle Date: 2017 Social-communication impairments in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often ascribed to deficits in empathy. I argue that social-communicative deficits in ASD stem from impairments in specific aspects of empathy, rather than a general empathy ... Read more
An exploration of the relationship between autism spectrum disorders, theory of mind and the serotonin transporter promoter length polymorphism

Author: Hamilton, Katie Date: 2014 Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable prevalent pervasive developmental disorder. All cases have deficits in social communication and interaction and in restricted and repetitive behaviours and interests. The mechanisms underlying ... Read more
Exploring the relationships between gender, affective and cognitive empathy, and aggressive behaviour in young Western Cape children

Author: Mayosvi, Panashe Agatha Date: 2019 Aggression among children and adolescents has been a major area of focus for many researchers across the world. In South Africa, specifically, aggressive behaviour has increasingly become problematic. Aggression can be regarded as antisocial ... Read more
Investigating correlates of aggressive behaviour in South African children and young adolescents living in the Western Cape: the role of empathy

Author: Pileggi, Lea-Ann Date: 2018 Escalating rates of aggression in South African schools, particularly in the Western Cape, are disconcerting. The early childhood through adolescent years is therefore an important platform for investigations to inform strategies to reduce ... Read more
Investigating the effect of depression, stress, and attachment style on leftward cradling bias.

Author: McGrath, Margaret J Date: 2013 The majority of women cradle infants to the left of their midline ? this phenomenon is known as leftward cradling bias. The right hemisphere's specialization for emotional processing is believed to explain the bias as it would facilitate ... Read more
Is conscious perception a continuous or dichotomous phenomenon?

Author: Pretorius, Henk Date: 2014 Is our conscious visual experience of the world characterised by events that appear suddenly or gradually in our awareness? This apparently simple question has proved difficult to resolve. Inspired by the global neuronal workspace theory, the ... Read more
Non-REM dreaming in relation to the cyclic alternating pattern an exploratory study

Author: Wainstein, Danyal Date: 2013 Dreaming is yet to be studied in relation to sleep microstructure. By endeavouring to study mentation in relation to the finer neurophysiological processes underlying the rhythmicity of the sleep cycles, dream science stands to benefit from ... Read more
The persistence of attitudes following violent and non-violent video game play using conventional versus embodied controls

Author: Koloko, Muya Date: 2010 The effects of violent video game play on hostility and support for violence are unclear. Previous studies have shown increases, decreases or no effect at all. At the time of the first study (2007) it was unclear if attitudes and opinions ... Read more
Prenatal alcohol exposure and the early neurodevelopmental outcomes of children in a South African birth cohort study

Author: Hendricks, Gaironeesa Date: 2020 Introduction: Over the last few decades, prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) has been a major public health problem both globally and in low- to-middle-income countries (LMICs) such as South Africa. Pregnant women and new mothers are particularly ... Read more

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