Frontiers in Psychiatry (Nov 2020)

Auditory Mismatch Negativity in Youth Affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder With and Without Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome

  • Giorgio Di Lorenzo,
  • Giorgio Di Lorenzo,
  • Assia Riccioni,
  • Michele Ribolsi,
  • Martina Siracusano,
  • Martina Siracusano,
  • Paolo Curatolo,
  • Luigi Mazzone

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.555340
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11

Abstract

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The present study investigates the differences in auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) parameters given in a sample of young subjects with autism spectrum disorder (ASD, n = 37) with or without co-occurrent attenuated psychosis syndrome (APS). Our results show that ASD individuals present an MMN decreased amplitude and prolonged latency, without being influenced by concurrent APS. Additionally, when correlating the MMN indexes to clinical features, in the ASD + APS group, we found a negative correlation between the severity of autistic symptoms and the MMN latency in both frequency (f-MMN r = −0.810; p < 0.0001) and duration (d-MMN r = −0.650; p = 0.006) deviants. Thus, our results may provide a more informative characterization of the ASD sub-phenotype when associated with APS, highlighting the need for further longitudinal investigations.

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