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dc.contributor.authorGranerud, Guro
dc.contributor.authorElvsåshagen, Torbjørn
dc.contributor.authorArntzen, Erik
dc.contributor.authorJuhasz, Katalin
dc.contributor.authorEmilsen, Nina Merete
dc.contributor.authorSønderby, Ida Elken
dc.contributor.authorNærland, Terje
dc.contributor.authorMalt, Eva Albertsen
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-07T13:05:53Z
dc.date.available2022-12-07T13:05:53Z
dc.date.created2022-11-28T00:05:59Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.issn1662-5161
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3036374
dc.description.abstractThe current study presents a male with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and a 3q29 deletion, and three healthy first-degree relatives. Our magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) dataset included a healthy control subset. We describe a comprehensive multimodal approach, including equivalence class formation, neurocognitive testing, MRI, and electroencephalography (EEG)-based cortical plasticity, which can provide new insights into sociocommunicative and learning impairments and neural underpinnings in ASD. On neurocognitive testing, the proband showed reduced processing speed, attending behavior, and executive function. He required more training trials in equivalence class training compared with family members and exhibited impaired priming of words compared with priming with images. The proband had smaller intracranial volume and surface area and a larger visual evoked potential (VEP) C1 amplitude than family members and intact long-term potentiation (LTP)-like visual cortex plasticity. Together, these results suggest that 3q29 deletion-related ASD is associated with impaired problem-solving strategies in complex socio-communicative and learning tasks, smaller intracranial and surface area, altered VEP amplitude, and normal LTP-like visual cortex plasticity. Further studies are needed to clarify whether this multimodal approach can be used to identify ASD subgroups with distinct neurobiological alterations and to uncover mechanisms underlying sociocommunicative and learning impairments. Lay Summary: We studied learning, brain activity, and brain structure in a person with autism and a genetic aberration, and his close relatives. Compared with relatives, the person with autism required more training for learning, and visual learning was better than verbal learning. This person had some changes in the activity of the visual cortex, and the size and the surface area of the brain were reduced. Knowledge about learning and brain mechanisms is valuable for the development of training programs for individuals with autism.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectAutismen_US
dc.subjectStimulus equivalenceen_US
dc.subjectNeuropsychologyen_US
dc.titleA family study of symbolic learning and synaptic plasticity in autism spectrum disorderen_US
dc.title.alternativeA family study of symbolic learning and synaptic plasticity in autism spectrum disorderen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fnhum.2022.950922
dc.identifier.cristin2081994
dc.source.journalFrontiers in Human Neuroscienceen_US


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