Journal article
Autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analysis of executive function
EA Demetriou, A Lampit, DS Quintana, SL Naismith, YJC Song, JE Pye, I Hickie, AJ Guastella
Molecular Psychiatry | SPRINGERNATURE | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2017.75
Abstract
Evidence of executive dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) across development remains mixed and establishing its role is critical for guiding diagnosis and intervention. The primary objectives of this meta-analysis is to analyse executive function (EF) performance in ASD, the fractionation across EF subdomains, the clinical utility of EF measures and the influence of multiple moderators (for example, age, gender, diagnosis, measure characteristics). The Embase, Medline and PsychINFO databases were searched to identify peer-reviewed studies published since the inclusion of Autism in DSM-III (1980) up to end of June 2016 that compared EF in ASD with neurotypical controls. A random-ef..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Karen Gould and Magdalena Durrant for completing the quality review of the studies and Benedikt Langenbach with assistance with data collection. We acknowledge NHMRC postgraduate scholarship to EAD (GNT1056587), a NHMRC Dementia Research Development Fellowship (ID 1108520) to AL, an NHMRC Australian Fellowship (APP 511921) to IH and a NHMRC career development fellowship (APP1061922) and project grant (1043664) to AJG. JEP is supported by NeuroSleep, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence.