Qin Tian, Wang Zihan, Li Xiaoming, Zhang Shunhua
School of Medical Imaging, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, China.
Anhui Key Laboratory of Computational Medicine and Intelligent Health, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, China.
Psychiatry Investig. 2023 Aug;20(8):721-729. doi: 10.30773/pi.2022.0248. Epub 2023 Aug 11.
We primarily aimed to investigate the attention network function among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using the Attention Network Test (ANT). The secondary objective was to observe whether the three attention networks of all participants were related to each other.
We included 28 parents of children with ASD and 28 well-matched parents of typically developing children. All participants underwent the neuropsychological assessment and ANT test. The three distinct attention networks, including alerting, orienting, and executive control, were also measured.
Compared with controls, parents of children with ASD showed less-efficient alerting and executive control network (all p<0.05), but not orienting network (p=0.74). No significant correlation was found between the alerting, orienting, and executive control network for either group.
Our findings showed that parents of children with ASD had deficits in alerting and executive control attention functions. The deficits are indications of a broad autism phenotype.
我们的主要目的是使用注意力网络测试（ANT）来研究自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）儿童的父母的注意力网络功能。次要目的是观察所有参与者的三个注意力网络是否相互关联。
我们纳入了28名ASD儿童的父母和28名匹配良好的发育正常儿童的父母。所有参与者都接受了神经心理学评估和ANT测试。还测量了三个不同的注意力网络，包括警觉、定向和执行控制。
与对照组相比，ASD儿童的父母表现出效率较低的警觉和执行控制网络（所有p<0.05），但定向网络没有差异（p=0.74）。两组的警觉、定向和执行控制网络之间均未发现显著相关性。
我们的研究结果表明，ASD儿童的父母在警觉和执行控制注意力功能方面存在缺陷。这些缺陷是广泛自闭症表型的指征。
