Journal article
Lack of Cognitive Impairment in First-Degree Relatives of Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that mild cognitive impairments aggregate in the unaffected first-degree relatives of probands with autism or pervasive developmental disorders (PDD).
METHOD: The unaffected siblings and parents of 52 PDD probands and 33 Down syndrome and low birth weight controls were administered a battery of psychometric tests. The tests included measures previously found to be depressed in …
Authors
SZATMARI P; JONES MB; TUFF L; BARTOLUCCI G; FISMAN S; MAHONEY W
Journal
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 1264–1273
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 1993
DOI
10.1097/00004583-199311000-00022
ISSN
0890-8567