Anaki David, Zadikov-Mor Tal, Gepstein Vardit, Hochberg Ze'ev
Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2018 May 4;9:171. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2018.00171. eCollection 2018.
Turner syndrome (TS) is a chromosomal disorder in women resulting from a partial or complete absence of the X chromosome. In addition to physical and hormonal dysfunctions, along with a unique neurocognitive profile, women with TS are reported to suffer from social functioning difficulties. Yet, it is unclear whether these difficulties stem from impairments in social cognition or from other deficits that characterize TS but are not specific to social cognition. Previous research that has probed social functioning in TS is equivocal regarding the source of these psychosocial problems since they have mainly used tasks that were dependent on visual-spatial skills, which are known to be compromised in TS. In the present study, we tested 26 women with TS and 26 matched participants on three social cognition tasks that did not require any visual-spatial capacities but rather relied on auditory-verbal skills. The results revealed that in all three tasks the TS participants did not differ from their control counterparts. The same TS cohort was found, in an earlier study, to be impaired, relative to controls, in other social cognition tasks that were dependent on visual-spatial skills. Taken together these findings suggest that the social problems, documented in TS, may be related to non-specific spatial-visual factors that affect their social cognition skills.
特纳综合征（TS）是一种女性染色体疾病，由部分或完全缺失X染色体引起。除了身体和激素功能障碍外，TS女性还具有独特的神经认知特征，据报道她们存在社交功能困难。然而，尚不清楚这些困难是源于社会认知障碍，还是源于TS所特有的但并非特定于社会认知的其他缺陷。以往探究TS社交功能的研究对于这些心理社会问题的根源并不明确，因为它们主要使用依赖视觉空间技能的任务，而这些技能在TS中已知会受到损害。在本研究中，我们对26名TS女性和26名匹配的参与者进行了三项社会认知任务测试，这些任务不需要任何视觉空间能力，而是依赖听觉语言技能。结果显示，在所有三项任务中，TS参与者与对照组没有差异。在早期研究中发现，同一组TS患者在依赖视觉空间技能的其他社会认知任务中相对于对照组受损。综合这些发现表明，TS中记录的社会问题可能与影响其社会认知技能的非特定空间视觉因素有关。
