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MacLennan K, Woolley C, @21andsensory E, Heasman B, Starns J, George B, Manning C. "It Is a Big Spider Web of Things": Sensory Experiences of Autistic Adults in Public Spaces. Autism Adulthood 2023; 5:411-422. [PMID: 38116051 PMCID: PMC10726197 DOI: 10.1089/aut.2022.0024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Background Sensory processing differences are commonly experienced by autistic individuals, and some sensory experiences can greatly impact the mental health and quality of life of individuals. Previous research suggests that adapting the sensory nature of environments may improve individual experiences and engagement with these spaces. However, knowledge about which public places are particularly disabling is limited, especially from the perspective of autistic individuals. Little is also known about what in the sensory environment makes them particularly disabling. Methods In this participatory research study, we investigated the sensory experiences of autistic adults in public spaces. We used an online focus group method, recruiting 24 autistic adults across 7 focus groups. We applied content analysis, reflexive thematic analysis, and case study analysis. Results The results of the content analysis showed that supermarkets, eateries (i.e., restaurants, cafés, pubs), highstreets and city/town centers, public transport, health care settings (i.e., doctor's surgeries and hospitals), and retail shops and shopping centers are experienced to be commonly disabling sensory environments for autistic adults. However, outdoor spaces, retail shops, museums, concert venues/clubs, cinemas/theaters, and stadiums are identified to be commonly less disabling sensory environments. In addition, through reflexive thematic analysis we identified 6 key principles that underlie how disabling or enabling sensory environments are: Sensoryscape (sensory environment), Space, Predictability, Understanding, Adjustments, and Recovery. We represented these principles as a web to emphasize the interconnected, dimensional spectrum of the different themes. Lastly, we used case study analysis to evidence these principles in the commonly disabling sensory environments for richer detail and context and to provide credibility for the principles. Conclusions Our findings have important implications for businesses, policy, and built environment designers to reduce the sensory impact of public places to make them more enabling for autistic people. By making public spaces more enabling, we may be able to improve quality of life for autistic individuals.
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- Keren MacLennan
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- School of Education, Language and Psychology, York St John University, York, United Kingdom
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
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Creswell L, Doddy F, Manning C, Nazir SF, Lindow SW, Lynch C, O'Gorman N. Cell free DNA screening for fetal aneuploidy in Ireland: An observational study of outcomes following insufficient fetal fraction. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2023; 290:143-149. [PMID: 37797414 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2023.09.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To determine maternal factors associated with low fetal fraction (FF). To determine the proportion of women who receive a result from repeat non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) testing. To identify any significant associations between pregnancy interventions or outcomes and low FF. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective observational study of 4465 women undergoing antenatal screening by targeted cell free DNA (cfDNA) testing at an Irish tertiary maternity hospital between January 2017 and December 2022. Patients who failed to obtain a result after the first NIPT were analyzed in two cohorts; those who received a result on a repeat sample and those who failed to ever achieve a result despite a second, third or fourth cfDNA test. RESULTS Risk of insufficient FF significantly increased with elevated maternal BMI (OR 1.07; 95% CI 1.01-1.13, p = 0.03) and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) (OR 3.4; 95% CI 1.19-9.4, p = 0.02). Women with no result were more likely to have diagnostic invasive testing (p < 0.01), but had no increased risk of aneuploidy. Repeated failed NIPT attempts due to low FF were significantly associated with the subsequent development of hypertensive diseases of pregnancy (p = 0.03). Greater than 70% of patients who were unsuccessful in a first or second attempt at NIPT due to low FF yielded a result following a second or third sample. CONCLUSIONS High BMI and IVF conceptions are greater contributors to low FF than fetal aneuploidy. Repeating NIPT yields a result in greater than 70% of cases. WHAT'S ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS TOPIC?: Fetal fraction (FF) in prenatal cfDNA testing is influenced by maternal and pregnancy factors including body mass index (BMI) and IVF. Low FF has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes including fetal aneuploidy and hypertensive diseases of pregnancy. WHAT DOES THIS STUDY ADD?: In a large Irish population, increasing maternal BMI and in-vitro fertilization are the most significant contributors to repeated test failures due to low FF. Greater than 70% of patients with test failure due to low FF will receive a result on 2nd and 3rd NIPT attempts. Patients with no result from NIPT were more likely to undergo diagnostic invasive testing but the risk of aneuploidy was not significantly increased.
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- The Coombe Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- The Coombe Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- The Coombe Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- The Coombe Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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Manning C, Scerif G. Understanding perceptual decisions by studying development and neurodiversity. Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2023; 32:300-306. [PMID: 37547284 PMCID: PMC7614885 DOI: 10.1177/09637214231162369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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A cornerstone of human information processing is how we make decisions about incoming sensory percepts. Much of psychological science has focused on understanding how these judgements operate in skilled adult observers. While not typically the focus of this research, there is considerable variability in how adults make these judgements. Here, we review complementary computational modelling, electrophysiological data, eye-tracking and longitudinal approaches to the study of perceptual decisions across neurotypical development and in neurodivergent individuals. These data highlight multiple parameters and temporal dynamics feeding into how we become skilled adult perceptual decision makers, and which may help explain why we vary so much in how we make perceptual decisions.
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- Catherine Manning
- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, UK
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
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Porter B, Wood C, Belderson P, Manning C, Meadows R, Sanderson K, Hanson S. We care but we're not carers: perceptions and experiences of social prescribing in a UK national community organisation. Perspect Public Health 2023:17579139231185004. [PMID: 37489838 DOI: 10.1177/17579139231185004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/26/2023]
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AIMS (1) To explore how social prescribing referrals impact experiences of existing members of a voluntary and community-based organisation and (2) to describe the processes and relationships associated with joining community and voluntary organisations. METHODS Online survey and qualitative interviews with members of Men's Sheds, a global volunteer-led initiative to address loneliness and social isolation in men. 93 self-selecting Shed members (average age 67 years, 93% male) from across England and Scotland took part in the survey about demographics, joining the Shed, and free-text questions about experiences in the Shed. From the survey participants, 21 Shed members were purposively sampled and interviewed to explore the impact of social prescribing and referrals on the Sheds. RESULTS Participating in the Men's Shed was often associated with a significant change in personal circumstances, and Sheds provided a unique social support space, particularly valuable for men. Key factors around experiences of social prescribing and referral mechanisms were identified. We developed three themes: the experience of joining a Shed, success factors and risks of social prescribing, and 'we care but we're not carers'. CONCLUSIONS The results show that Men's Sheds are a caring organisation, but their members are not trained as professional carers, and men come to the Shed for their own personal reasons. They are concerned about the potential additional responsibilities associated with formal referrals. They encourage the development of relationships and local-level understanding of the essence of Sheds to enable social prescribing. As models of social prescribing grow nationally and internationally, collaboratively working with voluntary and community organisations to develop a mutually beneficial approach is essential for the effectiveness and sustainability of social prescribing in community health.
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- B Porter
- School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- University of Winchester, Winchester, UK
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- Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- UK Men's Sheds Association, Bristol, UK
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- Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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Manning C, Williams G, MacLennan K. Sensory-inclusive spaces for autistic people: We need to build the evidence base. Autism 2023:13623613231183541. [PMID: 37401001 DOI: 10.1177/13623613231183541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/05/2023]
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MacLauchlan S, Kushwaha P, Tai A, Chen J, Manning C, Swarnkar G, Abu-Amer Y, Fitzgerald KA, Sharma S, Gravallese EM. STING-dependent interferon signatures restrict osteoclast differentiation and bone loss in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2210409120. [PMID: 37023130 PMCID: PMC10104545 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2210409120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 04/07/2023] Open
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Stimulator of interferon genes (STING) is a key mediator of type-I interferon (IFN-I) signaling in response to a variety of stimuli, but the contribution of STING to homeostatic processes is not fully characterized. Previous studies showed that ligand activation of STING limits osteoclast differentiation in vitro through the induction of IFNβ and IFN-I interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs). In a disease model (SAVI) driven by the V154M gain-of-function mutation in STING, fewer osteoclasts form from SAVI precursors in response to receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand (RANKL) in an IFN-I-dependent manner. Due to the described role of STING-mediated regulation of osteoclastogenesis in activation settings, we sought to determine whether basal STING signaling contributes to bone homeostasis, an unexplored area. Using whole-body and myeloid-specific deficiency, we show that STING signaling prevents trabecular bone loss in mice over time and that myeloid-restricted STING activity is sufficient for this effect. STING-deficient osteoclast precursors differentiate with greater efficiency than wild types. RNA sequencing of wild-type and STING-deficient osteoclast precursor cells and differentiating osteoclasts reveals unique clusters of ISGs including a previously undescribed ISG set expressed in RANKL naïve precursors (tonic expression) and down-regulated during differentiation. We identify a 50 gene tonic ISG signature that is STING dependent and shapes osteoclast differentiation. From this list, we identify interferon-stimulated gene 15 (ISG15) as a tonic STING-regulated ISG that limits osteoclast formation. Thus, STING is an important upstream regulator of tonic IFN-I signatures shaping the commitment to osteoclast fates, providing evidence for a nuanced and unique role for this pathway in bone homeostasis.
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- Susan MacLauchlan
- Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
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- Department of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA02111
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- Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
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- Department of Orthopedics and Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO63110
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- Department of Orthopedics and Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO63110
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- Department of Medicine, Program in Innate Immunity, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA01655
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- Department of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA02111
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- Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
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Manning C, Hulks V, Tibber MS, Dakin SC. Integration of visual motion and orientation signals in dyslexic children: an equivalent noise approach. R Soc Open Sci 2022; 9:200414. [PMID: 35592763 PMCID: PMC9066306 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.200414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Dyslexic individuals have been reported to have reduced global motion sensitivity, which could be attributed to various causes including atypical magnocellular or dorsal stream function, impaired spatial integration, increased internal noise and/or reduced external noise exclusion. Here, we applied an equivalent noise experimental paradigm alongside a traditional motion-coherence task to determine what limits global motion processing in dyslexia. We also presented static analogues of the motion tasks (orientation tasks) to investigate whether perceptual differences in dyslexia were restricted to motion processing. We compared the performance of 48 dyslexic and 48 typically developing children aged 8 to 14 years in these tasks and used equivalent noise modelling to estimate levels of internal noise (the precision associated with estimating each element's direction/orientation) and sampling (the effective number of samples integrated to judge the overall direction/orientation). While group differences were subtle, dyslexic children had significantly higher internal noise estimates for motion discrimination, and higher orientation-coherence thresholds, than typical children. Thus, while perceptual differences in dyslexia do not appear to be restricted to motion tasks, motion and orientation processing seem to be affected differently. The pattern of results also differs from that previously reported in autistic children, suggesting perceptual processing differences are condition-specific.
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- Catherine Manning
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL, UK
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, UK
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Manning C, Hassall CD, Hunt LT, Norcia AM, Wagenmakers EJ, Evans NJ, Scerif G. Behavioural and neural indices of perceptual decision-making in autistic children during visual motion tasks. Sci Rep 2022; 12:6072. [PMID: 35414064 PMCID: PMC9005733 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09885-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Many studies report atypical responses to sensory information in autistic individuals, yet it is not clear which stages of processing are affected, with little consideration given to decision-making processes. We combined diffusion modelling with high-density EEG to identify which processing stages differ between 50 autistic and 50 typically developing children aged 6-14 years during two visual motion tasks. Our pre-registered hypotheses were that autistic children would show task-dependent differences in sensory evidence accumulation, alongside a more cautious decision-making style and longer non-decision time across tasks. We tested these hypotheses using hierarchical Bayesian diffusion models with a rigorous blind modelling approach, finding no conclusive evidence for our hypotheses. Using a data-driven method, we identified a response-locked centro-parietal component previously linked to the decision-making process. The build-up in this component did not consistently relate to evidence accumulation in autistic children. This suggests that the relationship between the EEG measure and diffusion-modelling is not straightforward in autistic children. Compared to a related study of children with dyslexia, motion processing differences appear less pronounced in autistic children. Exploratory analyses also suggest weak evidence that ADHD symptoms moderate perceptual decision-making in autistic children.
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- Catherine Manning
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
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- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Manning C, Hassall CD, Hunt LT, Norcia AM, Wagenmakers EJ, Snowling MJ, Scerif G, Evans NJ. Visual Motion and Decision-Making in Dyslexia: Reduced Accumulation of Sensory Evidence and Related Neural Dynamics. J Neurosci 2022; 42:121-134. [PMID: 34782439 PMCID: PMC8741156 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1232-21.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2021] [Revised: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Children with and without dyslexia differ in their behavioral responses to visual information, particularly when required to pool dynamic signals over space and time. Importantly, multiple processes contribute to behavioral responses. Here we investigated which processing stages are affected in children with dyslexia when performing visual motion processing tasks, by combining two methods that are sensitive to the dynamic processes leading to responses. We used a diffusion model which decomposes response time and accuracy into distinct cognitive constructs, and high-density EEG. Fifty children with dyslexia (24 male) and 50 typically developing children (28 male) 6-14 years of age judged the direction of motion as quickly and accurately as possible in two global motion tasks (motion coherence and direction integration), which varied in their requirements for noise exclusion. Following our preregistered analyses, we fitted hierarchical Bayesian diffusion models to the data, blinded to group membership. Unblinding revealed reduced evidence accumulation in children with dyslexia compared with typical children for both tasks. Additionally, we identified a response-locked EEG component which was maximal over centro-parietal electrodes which indicated a neural correlate of reduced drift rate in dyslexia in the motion coherence task, thereby linking brain and behavior. We suggest that children with dyslexia tend to be slower to extract sensory evidence from global motion displays, regardless of whether noise exclusion is required, thus furthering our understanding of atypical perceptual decision-making processes in dyslexia.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Reduced sensitivity to visual information has been reported in dyslexia, with a lively debate about whether these differences causally contribute to reading difficulties. In this large preregistered study with a blind modeling approach, we combine state-of-the art methods in both computational modeling and EEG analysis to pinpoint the stages of processing that are atypical in children with dyslexia in two visual motion tasks that vary in their requirement for noise exclusion. We find reduced evidence accumulation in children with dyslexia across both tasks, and identify a neural marker, allowing us to link brain and behavior. We show that children with dyslexia exhibit general difficulties with extracting sensory evidence from global motion displays, not just in tasks that require noise exclusion.
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- Catherine Manning
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, OX2 6GG
- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom, RG6 6ES
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, OX3 7JX
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, OX3 7JX
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, US
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- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1001 NH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, OX2 6GG
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, OX2 6GG
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072 Australia
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Manning C, Hassall CD, Hunt LT, Norcia AM, Wagenmakers EJ, Snowling MJ, Scerif G, Evans NJ. A diffusion model decomposition of motion processing performance in children with dyslexia and related neural dynamics. J Vis 2021. [DOI: 10.1167/jov.21.9.2921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Toffoli L, Scerif G, Snowling MJ, Norcia AM, Manning C. Global motion evoked potentials in autistic and dyslexic children: A cross-syndrome approach. Cortex 2021; 143:109-126. [PMID: 34399308 PMCID: PMC8500218 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Revised: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Atypicalities in psychophysical thresholds for global motion processing have been reported in many neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism and dyslexia. Cross-syndrome comparisons of neural dynamics may help determine whether altered motion processing is a general marker of atypical development or condition-specific. Here, we assessed group differences in N2 peak amplitude (previously proposed as a marker of motion-specific processing) in typically developing (n = 57), autistic (n = 29) and dyslexic children (n = 44) aged 6-14 years, in two global motion tasks. High-density EEG data were collected while children judged the direction of global motion stimuli as quickly and accurately as possible, following a period of random motion. Using a data-driven component decomposition technique, we identified a reliable component that was maximal over occipital electrodes and had an N2-like peak at ~160 msec. We found no group differences in N2 peak amplitude, in either task. However, for both autistic and dyslexic children, there was evidence of atypicalities in later stages of processing that require follow up in future research. Our results suggest that early sensory encoding of motion information is unimpaired in dyslexic and autistic children. Group differences in later processing stages could reflect sustained global motion responses, decision-making, metacognitive processes and/or response generation, which may also distinguish between autistic and dyslexic individuals.
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- Lisa Toffoli
- Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
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Retzler C, Boehm U, Cai J, Cochrane A, Manning C. Prior information use and response caution in perceptual decision-making: No evidence for a relationship with autistic-like traits. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2021; 74:1953-1965. [PMID: 33998332 PMCID: PMC8450985 DOI: 10.1177/17470218211019939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Interpreting the world around us requires integrating incoming sensory signals with prior information. Autistic individuals have been proposed to rely less on prior information and make more cautious responses than non-autistic individuals. Here, we investigated whether these purported features of autistic perception vary as a function of autistic-like traits in the general population. We used a diffusion model framework, whereby decisions are modelled as noisy evidence accumulation processes towards one of two bounds. Within this framework, prior information can bias the starting point of the evidence accumulation process. Our pre-registered hypotheses were that higher autistic-like traits would relate to reduced starting point bias caused by prior information and increased response caution (wider boundary separation). 222 participants discriminated the direction of coherent motion stimuli as quickly and accurately as possible. Stimuli were preceded with a neutral cue (square) or a directional cue (arrow). 80% of the directional cues validly predicted the upcoming motion direction. We modelled accuracy and response time data using a hierarchical Bayesian model in which starting point varied with cue condition. We found no evidence for our hypotheses, with starting point bias and response caution seemingly unrelated to Adult Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) scores. Alongside future research applying this paradigm to autistic individuals, our findings will help refine theories regarding the role of prior information and altered decision-making strategies in autistic perception. Our study also has implications for models of bias in perceptual decision-making, as the most plausible model was one that incorporated bias in both decision-making and sensory processing.
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- Chris Retzler
- Department of Psychology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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Holmes B, Mirza U, Manning C, Cooke R, Jugdey R. 829 Is There an Ongoing Role For 'Telephone Triage Clinics' Post COVID-19? Br J Surg 2021. [PMCID: PMC8135847 DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znab134.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Introduction COVID-19 has placed unprecedented demand on services at ELHT and it has become necessary to have telephone clinics to reduce the number of face-to-face clinics. A ‘telephone triage clinic’ was set up for referrals from A&E. Our project evaluated patient and clinician satisfaction on this. Method We carried out a retrospective telephone questionnaire with patients over a one-week period during the pandemic. We focussed on overall satisfaction of the consultation and quality of communication. Consultants were also surveyed for their opinion on the clinics. Results From 30 patients, 77% said they were ‘very satisfied’ with the overall experience. 80% of patients were ‘very satisfied’ with the overall length of the telephone consultation. 50% of patients felt the clinician was only ‘adequately’ able to assess them over the telephone. The consultants were less satisfied with the overall experience of telephone consultation. A common theme was that they felt ED documentation could be improved to help inform ongoing management. Conclusions Overall, patients were satisfied with the consultations. It has been successful in minimising face to face consultations however some presentations necessitate further evaluation. We need to identify those injuries appropriate for virtual follow up and design a local protocol for these.
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- B Holmes
- East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, Blackburn, United Kingdom
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- East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, Blackburn, United Kingdom
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- East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, Blackburn, United Kingdom
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- East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, Blackburn, United Kingdom
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- East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, Blackburn, United Kingdom
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Manning C, Boehm U, Scerif G, Norcia AM, Wagenmakers EJ. Age-related changes in perceptual decision-making in children. J Vis 2020. [DOI: 10.1167/jov.20.11.109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Lavin M, Horan M, Durand O'Connor A, Doherty D, Manning C, Lynch C, Regan C, Ryan K, Byrne B. The impact of foetal restrictions on mode of delivery in women with inherited bleeding disorders. Eur J Haematol 2020; 105:555-560. [PMID: 32602982 DOI: 10.1111/ejh.13481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2020] [Revised: 06/22/2020] [Accepted: 06/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Management of pregnancy in women with congenital bleeding disorders (CBD) is challenging and requires understanding of risks conferred to both the mother and the foetus. Some elements of labour management are considered to increase the risk of neonatal bleeding and are not recommended for neonates at risk of a significant bleeding disorder. The impact of these restrictions on obstetric outcomes in women with CBD is unknown. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed obstetric outcomes in a large cohort of women with CBD attending a specialised obstetric/haematology antenatal clinic over a 6-year period. RESULTS Ninety-four pregnancies in 76 women with a wide variety of CBDs were assessed. Foetal precautions were recommended in the majority of cases (88%). Twenty (21.2%) were delivered by elective Caesarean section (CS), predominantly for obstetric indications. Of the 63 women who laboured with foetal precautions in place, 6 (10%) had a CS that was performed because of these precautions. There was no neonatal bleeding but primary postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) occurred in 12.2% of women. CONCLUSIONS These data show that foetal precautions in labour recommended for women with CBDs will influence mode of delivery in approximately 10% of cases. This is important information for counselling these women about labour and delivery.
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- Michelle Lavin
- Irish Centre for Vascular Biology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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- RCSI Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- RCSI Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- National Coagulation Centre, St. James' Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- RCSI Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- RCSI Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- RCSI Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- National Coagulation Centre, St. James' Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- RCSI Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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Children make faster and more accurate decisions about perceptual information as they get older, but it is unclear how different aspects of the decision-making process change with age. Here, we used hierarchical Bayesian diffusion models to decompose performance in a perceptual task into separate processing components, testing age-related differences in model parameters and links to neural data. We collected behavioural and EEG data from 96 6- to 12-year-old children and 20 adults completing a motion discrimination task. We used a component decomposition technique to identify two response-locked EEG components with ramping activity preceding the response in children and adults: one with activity that was maximal over centro-parietal electrodes and one that was maximal over occipital electrodes. Younger children had lower drift rates (reduced sensitivity), wider boundary separation (increased response caution) and longer non-decision times than older children and adults. Yet, model comparisons suggested that the best model of children's data included age effects only on drift rate and boundary separation (not non-decision time). Next, we extracted the slope of ramping activity in our EEG components and covaried these with drift rate. The slopes of both EEG components related positively to drift rate, but the best model with EEG covariates included only the centro-parietal component. By decomposing performance into distinct components and relating them to neural markers, diffusion models have the potential to identify the reasons why children with developmental conditions perform differently to typically developing children and to uncover processing differences inapparent in the response time and accuracy data alone.
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- Catherine Manning
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Lloyd TD, Neal‐Smith G, Fennelly J, Claireaux H, Bretherton C, Carr AJ, Murphy M, Kendrick BJ, Palmer AJR, Wong J, Sharma P, Osei‐Bonsu PK, Ashcroft G, Baigent T, Shirland E, Espey R, Stokes M, Liew I, Dhawal A, Watchorn D, Lum J, Qureshi M, Khaled AS, Kauser S, Hodhody G, Rogers S, Haywood‐Alexander B, Sheikh G, Mahapatra P, Twaij H, Chicco M, Arnaout F, Atherton T, Mutimer J, Sinha P, Oliver E, Stedman T, Gadd R, Kutuzov V, Sattar M, Robiati L, Plastow R, Howe T, Hassan A, Lau B, Collins J, Doshi A, Tan G, Baskaran D, Hari Sunil Kumar K, Agarwal R, Horner M, Gwyn R, Masud S, Beaumont O, Pilarski A, Lebe M, Dawson‐Bowling S, Nolan D, Tsitskaris K, Beamish RE, Jordan C, Alsop S, Hibbert E, Deshpande G, Gould A, Briant‐Evans T, Kilbane L, Crowther I, Ingoe H, Naisbitt A, Gourbault L, Muscat J, Goh EL, Gill J, Elbashir M, Modi N, Archer J, Ismael S, Petrie M, O'Brien H, McCormick M, Koh NP, Lloyd T, King A, Ikram A, Peake J, Yoong A, Rye DS, Newman M, Naraen A, Myatt D, Kapur R, Sgardelis P, Kohli S, Culverhouse‐Mathews M, Haynes S, Boden H, Purmah A, Shenoy R, Raja S, Koh NP, Donovan R, Yeomans D, Ritchie D, Larkin R, Aladwan R, Hughes K, Unsworth R, Cooke R, Samra I, Barrow J, Michael K, Byrne F, Anwar R, Karatzia L, Drysdale H, Wilson H, Jones R, Dass D, Liaw F, Aujla R, Kheiran A, Bell K, Ramavath AL, Telfer R, Nachev K, Lawrence H, Garg V, Shenoy P, Lacey A, Byrom I, Simons M, Manning C, Cheyne N, Williams J. Peri‐operative administration of tranexamic acid in lower limb arthroplasty: a multicentre, prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia 2020; 75:1050-1058. [DOI: 10.1111/anae.15056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- T. D. Lloyd
- Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences University of Oxford Oxford UK
- Oxford Surgical Collaborative for Audit and Research Oxford UK
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- Oxford Surgical Collaborative for Audit and Research Oxford UK
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- Oxford Surgical Collaborative for Audit and Research Oxford UK
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- Oxford Surgical Collaborative for Audit and Research Oxford UK
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- Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences University of Oxford Oxford UK
- Oxford Surgical Collaborative for Audit and Research Oxford UK
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- Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences University of Oxford Oxford UK
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- University of Oxford UK
- NHS Blood and Transplant Oxford UK
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- Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences University of Oxford Oxford UK
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- Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences University of Oxford Oxford UK
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Visual perception in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often debated in terms of enhanced local and impaired global perception. Deficits in global motion perception seem to support this characterization, although the evidence is inconsistent. We conducted a large meta-analysis on global motion, combining 48 articles on biological and coherent motion. Results provide evidence for a small global motion processing deficit in individuals with ASD compared to controls in both biological and coherent motion. This deficit appears to be present independent of the paradigm, task, dependent variable, age or IQ of the groups. Results indicate that individuals with ASD are less sensitive to these types of global motion, although the difference in neural mechanisms underlying this behavioral difference remains unclear.
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- Ruth Van der Hallen
- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Department of Brain and Cognition, KU Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
- Leuven Autism Research (LAuRes), KU Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
- Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3062 PA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Department of Brain and Cognition, KU Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
- Leuven Autism Research (LAuRes), KU Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
- Parenting and Special Education Research Unit, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Department of Brain and Cognition, KU Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
- Leuven Autism Research (LAuRes), KU Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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Keane R, Manning C, Lynch C, Regan C, Byrne B. How Much Greater is Obstetric Intervention in Women with Medical Disorders in Pregnancy When Compared to the General Population? Ir Med J 2019; 112:1001. [PMID: 31651131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Introduction The purpose of this study was to compare obstetric and neonatal outcomes between women attending a specialised maternal medicine service and the general obstetric population. Methods Women attending from January 2011 to December 2016 were identified from the clinic database. Medical diagnosis, demographics, obstetric and neonatal outcomes were compared with data from hospital annual report 2014. Results 1873 women were compared with 8632 women who delivered at the hospital in 2014. Delivery before 34 weeks [82 (4.5%) vs 189 (2.2%)], induction of labour [761 (40.6%) vs 2664 (30.9%)] and delivery by Caesarean Section (CS) [664 (35%) vs 2479 (29%)] were higher p<0.001; but elective CS [334 (18%) vs 1425 (17%), p=0.18] did not differ between the two groups. Neonatal outcomes were similar. Conclusion Premature delivery, induction of labour and CS rates are higher in women with medical disorders in pregnancy. Encouragingly, 77% of women attempting vaginal birth in this group were successful.
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- R Keane
- Medical student University College Dublin
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- Maternal Medicine Service, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Maternal Medicine Service, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Maternal Medicine Service, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Maternal Medicine Service, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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Manning C, Kaneshiro B, Kohler PJ, Duta M, Scerif G, Norcia AM. Neural dynamics underlying coherent motion perception in children and adults. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2019; 38:100670. [PMID: 31228678 PMCID: PMC6688051 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2018] [Revised: 05/20/2019] [Accepted: 06/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Motion sensitivity increases during childhood, but little is known about the neural correlates. Most studies investigating children's evoked responses have not dissociated direction-specific and non-direction-specific responses. To isolate direction-specific responses, we presented coherently moving dot stimuli preceded by incoherent motion, to 6- to 7-year-olds (n = 34), 8- to 10-year-olds (n = 34), 10- to 12-year-olds (n = 34) and adults (n = 20). Participants reported the coherent motion direction while high-density EEG was recorded. Using a data-driven approach, we identified two stimulus-locked EEG components with distinct topographies: an early component with an occipital topography likely reflecting sensory encoding and a later, sustained positive component over centro-parietal electrodes that we attribute to decision-related processes. The component waveforms showed clear age-related differences. In the early, occipital component, all groups showed a negativity peaking at ˜300 ms, like the previously reported coherent-motion N2. However, the children, unlike adults, showed an additional positive peak at ˜200 ms, suggesting differential stimulus encoding. The later positivity in the centro-parietal component rose more steeply for adults than for the youngest children, likely reflecting age-related speeding of decision-making. We conclude that children's protracted development of coherent motion sensitivity is associated with maturation of both early sensory and later decision-related processes.
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- Catherine Manning
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Anna Watts Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK.
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, 2452 Watson Court, Palo Alto, CA, 94303, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Jordan Hall, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Anna Watts Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Anna Watts Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Jordan Hall, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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Boyd SC, O'Connor AD, Horan MA, Dicker P, Manning C, Lynch C, Regan C, Ryan K, Tan T, Byrne BM. Analgesia, anaesthesia and obstetric outcome in women with inherited bleeding disorders. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2019; 239:60-63. [PMID: 31185377 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2019.05.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2019] [Revised: 05/28/2019] [Accepted: 05/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Vertebral canal haematoma (VCH) complicates 1 in 168,000 obstetric epidurals (Ruppen et al., 2006). This risk is increased in women with inherited bleeding disorders (IBD). The impact of a contraindication to regional anaesthesia on pain management and obstetric outcome in these women is unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine anaesthetic use and obstetric outcomes in a cohort of women with IBD. STUDY DESIGN 97 women with IBD that delivered 130 babies at the CWIUH from Jan 2011 to Dec 2016 were identified from a maternal medicine database. Multidisciplinary planning of peripartum care was communicated to labour ward staff using a simple checklist. The primary bleeding disorders were: Von Willebrands disease (VWD) Type 1 27 (27.8%); VWD Type 2A 3 (3.8%); Low VWF 3 (3.8%); Bleeding disorder of unknown aetiology (BDUA) 19 (19.6%); deficiency of Factors VII, VIII, IX, X, and XI 13 (13.4%); Carriers of Factor VIII, IX, X, XIII deficiency 17 (17.5%); 5 had combined deficiencies (5.2%) and there was one platelet function defect. 9 had a family history of a bleeding disorder (9.3%). Haemostatic support, analgesia, mode of delivery and maternal and fetal outcomes were compared between pregnancies where regional anaesthesia was permitted and those that were not using the Chi-squared test. RESULTS When pregnancies where regional anaesthesia was not recommended (49) were compared with pregnancies where regional anaesthesia was considered safe (81), the women were more likely to see an anaesthetist before labour 46 (94%) vs 46 (61%): p < 0.001; to require prophylactic haemostatic support for delivery 30 (61%) vs 1 (1%): p < 0.001; to use a remifentanil infusion 15 (31%) vs 0: p < 0.001, and have general anaesthesia for Caesarean Section (CS) 10 (20%) vs 1(1%): p < 0.001. Vaginal birth 35 (71%) vs 53(65%): p = 0.4 and CS rates 14 (29%) vs 26 (32%) p = 0.28 were similar. Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) was more common 11 (24%) vs 9(12%) vs p = 0.07 but not statistically so. There were no cases of neonatal bleeding or VCH. CONCLUSION Contraindication to neuraxial blockade in labouring women with IBD does not influence mode of delivery. This information is reassuring to these women who may be anxious about delivery without regional anaesthesia.
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- Sean C Boyd
- University College Dublin, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland.
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- Maternal Medicine, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Maternal Medicine, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Department of Epidemiology Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
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- Maternal Medicine, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Maternal Medicine, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Maternal Medicine, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Maternal Medicine, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Perioperative Medicine Service, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Maternal Medicine, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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Manning C, Scerif G, Norcia A. Coherent motion evoked responses in school-aged children. J Vis 2018. [DOI: 10.1167/18.10.541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
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The ability to judge speed is a fundamental aspect of visual motion processing. Speed judgments are generally assumed to depend on signals in motion-sensitive, directionally selective, neurons in areas such as V1 and MT. Speed comparisons might therefore be expected to be most accurate when they use information within a common set of directionally tuned neurons. However, there does not appear to be any published evidence on how well speeds can be compared for movements in different directions. We tested speed discrimination judgments between pairs of random-dot stimuli presented side-by-side in a series of four experiments (n = 65). Participants judged which appeared faster of a reference stimulus moving along the cardinal or oblique axis and a comparison stimulus moving either in the same direction or in a different direction. The bias (point of subjective equality) and sensitivity (Weber fraction) were estimated from individual psychometric functions fitted for each condition. There was considerable between-participants variability in psychophysical estimates across conditions. Nonetheless, participants generally made more acute comparisons between stimuli moving in the same direction than those moving in different directions, at least for conditions with an upwards reference (∼20% difference in Weber fractions). We also showed evidence for an oblique effect in speed discrimination when comparing stimuli moving in the same direction, and a bias whereby oblique motion tended to be perceived as moving faster than cardinal motion. These results demonstrate interactions between speed and direction processing, thus informing our understanding of how they are represented in the brain.
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- Catherine Manning
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Sandkovsky U, Qiu F, Kalil AC, Florescu A, Wilson N, Manning C, Florescu DF. Risk Factors for the Development of Cytomegalovirus Resistance in Solid Organ Transplantation: A Retrospective Case-Control Study. Transplant Proc 2018; 50:3763-3768. [PMID: 30577267 DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2018.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2018] [Revised: 07/16/2018] [Accepted: 08/03/2018] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Cytomegalovirus (CMV) resistance is an emerging problem in solid organ transplant recipients. Risk factors are not well defined. METHODS Recipients with CMV viremia of solid organ transplants who underwent CMV resistance testing between January 2010 and March 2016 were divided in 2 groups: proven CMV resistance and refractory CMV infection. A third group was added to compare patients with viremia during the study period with patients with no resistance proven or suspected. We aimed to identify risk factors associated with the occurrence of CMV genotypic resistance. RESULTS Forty-nine patients underwent resistance testing. Eleven (22.45%) developed genotypic mutations. Group 1 vs groups 2 and 3 had higher prednisone (P = .01) and tacrolimus levels (P = .03); did not respond to antivirals (P < .0001); and had a higher rate of fungal infections (P = .03). CMV resistance was less common in liver and kidney vs heart, small bowel, and mutivisceral recipients (P = .0007). There was no difference in duration of antiviral prophylaxis, viremia while on antiviral prophylaxis, rate of end-organ disease, graft loss, and overall survival. Persistent clinical disease and viremia despite antiviral therapy was the most important risk factor for development of CMV resistance. CONCLUSION Persistent clinical disease despite antiviral therapy is an important risk factor and may in part be due to a high degree of immunosuppression. Graft loss and survival were not impacted by CMV resistance.
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- U Sandkovsky
- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA; Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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When assessing the perceptual abilities of children, researchers tend to use psychophysical techniques designed for use with adults. However, children's poorer attentiveness might bias the threshold estimates obtained by these methods. Here, we obtained speed discrimination threshold estimates in 6- to 7-year-old children in UK Key Stage 1 (KS1), 7- to 9-year-old children in Key Stage 2 (KS2), and adults using three psychophysical procedures: QUEST, a 1-up 2-down Levitt staircase, and Method of Constant Stimuli (MCS). We estimated inattentiveness using responses to "easy" catch trials. As expected, children had higher threshold estimates and made more errors on catch trials than adults. Lower threshold estimates were obtained from psychometric functions fit to the data in the QUEST condition than the MCS and Levitt staircases, and the threshold estimates obtained when fitting a psychometric function to the QUEST data were also lower than when using the QUEST mode. This suggests that threshold estimates cannot be compared directly across methods. Differences between the procedures did not vary significantly with age group. Simulations indicated that inattentiveness biased threshold estimates particularly when threshold estimates were computed as the QUEST mode or the average of staircase reversals. In contrast, thresholds estimated by post-hoc psychometric function fitting were less biased by attentional lapses. Our results suggest that some psychophysical methods are more robust to attentiveness, which has important implications for assessing the perception of children and clinical groups.
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- Catherine Manning
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Anna Watts Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK.
- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK.
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- UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK
- NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
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- UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK
- UCL Psychology and Language Science, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK
- Department of Educational Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Tewolde FG, Bishop DVM, Manning C. Visual Motion Prediction and Verbal False Memory Performance in Autistic Children. Autism Res 2018; 11:509-518. [PMID: 29271070 PMCID: PMC5901411 DOI: 10.1002/aur.1915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2017] [Revised: 11/13/2017] [Accepted: 12/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Recent theoretical accounts propose that atypical predictive processing can explain the diverse cognitive and behavioral features associated with autism, and that difficulties in making predictions may be related to reduced contextual processing. In this pre-registered study, 30 autistic children aged 6-14 years and 30 typically developing children matched in age and non-verbal IQ completed visual extrapolation and false memory tasks to assess predictive abilities and contextual processing, respectively. In the visual extrapolation tasks, children were asked to predict when an occluded car would reach the end of a road and when an occluded set of lights would fill up a grid. Autistic children made predictions that were just as precise as those made by typically developing children, across a range of occlusion durations. In the false memory task, autistic and typically developing children did not differ significantly in their discrimination between items presented in a list and semantically related, non-presented items, although the data were insensitive, suggesting the need for larger samples. Our findings help to refine theoretical accounts by challenging the notion that autism is caused by pervasively disordered prediction abilities. Further studies will be required to assess the relationship between predictive processing and context use in autism, and to establish the conditions under which predictive processing may be impaired. Autism Res 2018, 11: 509-518. © 2017 The Authors Autism Research published by International Society for Autism Research and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. LAY SUMMARY It has been suggested that autistic individuals have difficulties making predictions and perceiving the overall gist of things. Yet, here we found that autistic children made similar predictions about hidden objects as non-autistic children. In a memory task, autistic children were slightly less confused about whether they had heard a word before, when words were closely related in meaning. We conclude that autistic children do not show difficulties with this type of prediction.
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Karaminis T, Neil L, Manning C, Turi M, Fiorentini C, Burr D, Pellicano E. Reprint of "Investigating ensemble perception of emotions in autistic and typical children and adolescents". Dev Cogn Neurosci 2018; 29:97-107. [PMID: 29475799 PMCID: PMC6987872 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2016] [Revised: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 01/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Ensemble perception, the ability to assess automatically the summary of large amounts of information presented in visual scenes, is available early in typical development. This ability might be compromised in autistic children, who are thought to present limitations in maintaining summary statistics representations for the recent history of sensory input. Here we examined ensemble perception of facial emotional expressions in 35 autistic children, 30 age- and ability-matched typical children and 25 typical adults. Participants received three tasks: a) an ‘ensemble’ emotion discrimination task; b) a baseline (single-face) emotion discrimination task; and c) a facial expression identification task. Children performed worse than adults on all three tasks. Unexpectedly, autistic and typical children were, on average, indistinguishable in their precision and accuracy on all three tasks. Computational modelling suggested that, on average, autistic and typical children used ensemble-encoding strategies to a similar extent; but ensemble perception was related to non-verbal reasoning abilities in autistic but not in typical children. Eye-movement data also showed no group differences in the way children attended to the stimuli. Our combined findings suggest that the abilities of autistic and typical children for ensemble perception of emotions are comparable on average.
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- Themelis Karaminis
- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK; Department of Psychology, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK.
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- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK
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- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy; Fondazione Stella Maris Mediterraneo, Chiaromonte, Potenza, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy; School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK; School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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Manning C, Molodynski A, Rugkåsa J, Dawson J, Burns T. Community treatment orders in England and Wales: national survey of clinicians' views and use. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1192/pb.bp.110.032631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Aims and methodTo ascertain the views and experiences of psychiatrists in England and Wales regarding community treatment orders (CTOs). We mailed 1928 questionnaires to members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.ResultsIn total, 566 usable surveys were returned, providing a 29% response rate. Respondents were generally positive about the introduction of the new powers, more so than in previous UK studies. They reported that their decision-making regarding compulsion was based largely on clinical grounds.Clinical implicationsIn the absence of research evidence or a professional consensus about the use of CTOs, multidisciplinary input in decision-making is essential. Further research and training are urgently needed.
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Manning C, Tibber M, Dakin S. Direction and orientation integration in autistic children. J Vis 2017. [DOI: 10.1167/17.10.1103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of AucklandUCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London
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Braddick O, Trevelyan-Thomas R, Manning C. CAN SPEED BE JUDGED INDEPENDENT OF DIRECTION? J Vis 2017. [DOI: 10.1167/17.10.936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Manning C, Morgan MJ, Allen CTW, Pellicano E. Susceptibility to Ebbinghaus and Müller-Lyer illusions in autistic children: a comparison of three different methods. Mol Autism 2017; 8:16. [PMID: 28344759 PMCID: PMC5364638 DOI: 10.1186/s13229-017-0127-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2016] [Accepted: 03/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Studies reporting altered susceptibility to visual illusions in autistic individuals compared to that typically developing individuals have been taken to reflect differences in perception (e.g. reduced global processing), but could instead reflect differences in higher-level decision-making strategies. Methods We measured susceptibility to two contextual illusions (Ebbinghaus, Müller-Lyer) in autistic children aged 6–14 years and typically developing children matched in age and non-verbal ability using three methods. In experiment 1, we used a new two-alternative-forced-choice method with a roving pedestal designed to minimise cognitive biases. Here, children judged which of two comparison stimuli was most similar in size to a reference stimulus. In experiments 2 and 3, we used methods previously used with autistic populations. In experiment 2, children judged whether stimuli were the ‘same’ or ‘different’, and in experiment 3, we used a method-of-adjustment task. Results Across all tasks, autistic children were equally susceptible to the Ebbinghaus illusion as typically developing children. Autistic children showed a heightened susceptibility to the Müller-Lyer illusion, but only in the method-of-adjustment task. This result may reflect differences in decisional criteria. Conclusions Our results are inconsistent with theories proposing reduced contextual integration in autism and suggest that previous reports of altered susceptibility to illusions may arise from differences in decision-making, rather than differences in perception per se. Our findings help to elucidate the underlying reasons for atypical responses to perceptual illusions in autism and call for the use of methods that reduce cognitive bias when measuring illusion susceptibility. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13229-017-0127-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Catherine Manning
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, 9 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD UK
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- Applied Vision Research Centre, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB UK.,Max-Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Gleueler Str. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany
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- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, 55-59 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0NU UK
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- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, 55-59 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0NU UK.,School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA 6009 Australia
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Dekker T, Schwarzkopf S, McLean A, Manning C, Greenwood J, Nardini M, Sereno M. The development of population receptive field size in visual cortex during childhood. J Vis 2016. [DOI: 10.1167/16.12.206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Manning C, Kilner J, Neil L, Karaminis T, Pellicano E. Children on the autism spectrum update their behaviour in response to a volatile environment. Dev Sci 2016; 20. [PMID: 27496590 PMCID: PMC5600083 DOI: 10.1111/desc.12435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2015] [Accepted: 03/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Typical adults can track reward probabilities across trials to estimate the volatility of the environment and use this information to modify their learning rate (Behrens et al., 2007). In a stable environment, it is advantageous to take account of outcomes over many trials, whereas in a volatile environment, recent experience should be more strongly weighted than distant experience. Recent predictive coding accounts of autism propose that autistic individuals will demonstrate atypical updating of their behaviour in response to the statistics of the reward environment. To rigorously test this hypothesis, we administered a developmentally appropriate version of Behrens et al.'s (2007) task to 34 cognitively able children on the autism spectrum aged between 6 and 14 years, 32 age- and ability-matched typically developing children and 19 typical adults. Participants were required to choose between a green and a blue pirate chest, each associated with a randomly determined reward value between 0 and 100 points, with a combined total of 100 points. On each trial, the reward was given for one stimulus only. In the stable condition, the ratio of the blue or green response being rewarded was fixed at 75:25. In the volatile condition, the ratio alternated between 80:20 and 20:80 every 20 trials. We estimated the learning rate for each participant by fitting a delta rule model and compared this rate across conditions and groups. All groups increased their learning rate in the volatile condition compared to the stable condition. Unexpectedly, there was no effect of group and no interaction between group and condition. Thus, autistic children used information about the statistics of the reward environment to guide their decisions to a similar extent as typically developing children and adults. These results help constrain predictive coding accounts of autism by demonstrating that autism is not characterized by uniform differences in the weighting of prediction error.
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
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- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK
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- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK
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- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.,School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Australia
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Aims and method Community treatment orders (CTOs) are increasingly embedded into UK practice and their use continues to rise. However, they remain highly controversial. We surveyed psychiatrists to establish their experiences and current opinions of using CTOs and to compare findings with our previous survey conducted in 2010. Results The opinions of psychiatrists in the UK have not changed since 2010 in spite of recent evidence questioning the effectiveness of CTOs. Clinical factors (the need for engagement and treatment adherence, and the achievement of adherence and improved insight) remain the most important considerations in initiating and discharging a CTO. Clinical implications Given the accumulating evidence from research and clinical practice that CTOs do not improve outcomes, it is concerning that psychiatrists' opinions have not altered in response, particularly given the implications for patient care.
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- Ritz DeRidder
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Reading, UK
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Karaminis T, Neil L, Manning C, Turi M, Fiorentini C, Burr D, Pellicano L. Ensemble perception of emotions in children with autism. J Vis 2015. [DOI: 10.1167/15.12.916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Manning C, Morgan M, Allen C, Pellicano E. Do children with autism show reduced susceptibility to the Ebbinghaus illusion? J Vis 2015. [DOI: 10.1167/15.12.646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Manning C, Neil L, Karaminis T, Pellicano E. The effects of grouping on speed discrimination thresholds in adults, typically developing children, and children with autism. J Vis 2015; 15:17. [PMID: 26317324 DOI: 10.1167/15.11.17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Adult observers show elevated speed discrimination thresholds when comparing the speeds of objects moving across a boundary compared to those moving parallel to a boundary (Verghese & McKee, 2006)-an effect that has been attributed to grouping processes in conjunction with a prior for smooth motion. Here, we extended Verghese and McKee's (2006) paradigm to typically developing children (n = 35) and children with autism (n = 26) and compared their performance with that of typical adults (n = 19). Speed discrimination thresholds were measured in three conditions: (a) with dots moving parallel to a boundary, (b) with dots moving perpendicular to a boundary, and (c) with dots in each stimulus half moving in orthogonal, oblique directions. As expected, participants had higher speed discrimination thresholds when dots appeared to cross a boundary compared to when dots moved parallel to the boundary. However, participants had even higher thresholds when dots moved in oblique, orthogonal directions, where grouping should be minimal. All groups of participants showed a similar pattern of performance across conditions although children had higher thresholds than adult participants overall. We consider various explanations for the pattern of performance obtained, including enhanced sensitivity for shearing motions and reduced sensitivity for discriminating different directions. Our results demonstrate that the speed discrimination judgments of typically developing children and children with autism are similarly affected by spatial configuration as those of typical adults and provide further evidence that speed discrimination is unimpaired in children with autism.
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Manning C, Baker DH. Response to Davis and Plaisted-Grant: psychophysical data do not support the low-noise account of autism. Autism 2014; 19:365-6. [PMID: 25492972 DOI: 10.1177/1362361314557164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Manning C, Dakin S, Tibber M, Charman T, Pellicano E. Increased sampling of motion signals in children with autism. J Vis 2014. [DOI: 10.1167/14.10.676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Manning C, Dakin SC, Tibber MS, Pellicano E. Averaging, not internal noise, limits the development of coherent motion processing. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2014; 10:44-56. [PMID: 25160679 PMCID: PMC4256063 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2014.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2014] [Revised: 07/16/2014] [Accepted: 07/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Motion processing abilities develop gradually through childhood. This lengthy development could be due to local noise and/or poor averaging. 5–11-year-olds and adults performed equivalent noise and motion coherence tasks. Through childhood, internal noise reduces and averaging increases. Yet, only improved averaging explains developments in motion coherence sensitivity.
The development of motion processing is a critical part of visual development, allowing children to interact with moving objects and navigate within a dynamic environment. However, global motion processing, which requires pooling motion information across space, develops late, reaching adult-like levels only by mid-to-late childhood. The reasons underlying this protracted development are not yet fully understood. In this study, we sought to determine whether the development of motion coherence sensitivity is limited by internal noise (i.e., imprecision in estimating the directions of individual elements) and/or global pooling across local estimates. To this end, we presented equivalent noise direction discrimination tasks and motion coherence tasks at both slow (1.5°/s) and fast (6°/s) speeds to children aged 5, 7, 9 and 11 years, and adults. We show that, as children get older, their levels of internal noise reduce, and they are able to average across more local motion estimates. Regression analyses indicated, however, that age-related improvements in coherent motion perception are driven solely by improvements in averaging and not by reductions in internal noise. Our results suggest that the development of coherent motion sensitivity is primarily limited by developmental changes within brain regions involved in integrating motion signals (e.g., MT/V5).
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- Catherine Manning
- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), Institute of Education, University of London, 55-59 Gordon Square, Institute of Education, London WC1H 0NU, UK.
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- UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, Bath Street, London EC 1V9, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital, 162 City Road, London EC 1V 2PD, UK
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- UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, Bath Street, London EC 1V9, UK
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- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), Institute of Education, University of London, 55-59 Gordon Square, Institute of Education, London WC1H 0NU, UK
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Manning C, Charman T, Pellicano E. Processing slow and fast motion in children with autism spectrum conditions. Autism Res 2013; 6:531-41. [PMID: 23847052 DOI: 10.1002/aur.1309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2012] [Accepted: 06/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Consistent with the dorsal stream hypothesis, difficulties processing dynamic information have previously been reported in individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC). However, no research has systematically compared motion processing abilities for slow and fast speeds. Here, we measured speed discrimination thresholds and motion coherence thresholds in slow (1.5 deg/sec) and fast (6 deg/sec) speed conditions in children with an ASC aged 7 to 14 years, and age- and ability-matched typically developing children. Unexpectedly, children with ASC were as sensitive as typically developing children to differences in speed at both slow and fast reference speeds. Yet, elevated motion coherence thresholds were found in children with ASC, but in the slow stimulus speed condition only. Rather than having pervasive difficulties in motion processing, as predicted by the dorsal stream hypothesis, these results suggest that children with ASC have a selective difficulty in extracting coherent motion information specifically at slow speeds. Understanding the effects of stimulus parameters such as stimulus speed will be important for resolving discrepancies between previous studies examining motion coherence thresholds in ASC and also for refining theoretical models of altered autistic perception.
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- Catherine Manning
- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, University of London, London
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Unsal E, Nugay II, Offenbach I, Gross M, Manning C, Cakmak M. Rapid integrated rheo-optical and polarized Fourier-transform infrared spectrometry measurement system for polymer films undergoing chemo-mechanical changes. Rev Sci Instrum 2013; 84:073901. [PMID: 23902078 DOI: 10.1063/1.4811845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The design and performance of a multisensory instrument to track physical and chemical changes of thin polymer films (typically 5 μm < thickness < 100 μm) subjected to thermal and mechanical treatments are described in this paper. For the first time, real-time measurements of spectral birefringence, true stress, true strain, and temperature are integrated together with ultra-rapid-scan polarized FT-IR spectrometer (URS-FT-IR) to investigate the relationships between true mechanical measures and structural features at different length scales. The rheo-optical properties (birefringence-true stress-true strain) are collected at a rate of 10 data points∕s and URS-FT-IR data are collected at a rate of 300 complete spectra∕s. The IR dichroism measurement is performed by exposing the sample to non-polarized IR beam in transmission mode with two mutually perpendicular polarizations, parallel and perpendicular to the stretching direction, received by detector unit. This design allows to analyze both polarizations simultaneously wavenumbers in the range of 500 cm(-1)-4000 cm(-1). Controlled processing parameters include air speed, air temperature, stretching rate, stretching ratio, stretch cycling, and holding times; while simultaneously measuring optical retardation, sample width, temperature, load cell, and both parallel and perpendicular IR spectra. Calibration and performance of this instrument is demonstrated with several film samples. These are: A polystyrene standard, an atactic polystyrene (homo-polymer), a polyurethane (consists of hard and soft segments) for physical changes during uniaxial deformation, and a polyamic acid during imidization reaction. This measurement system is particularly useful in unraveling molecular level details of complex physical and chemical events that take place during very fast deformation schemes (uniaxial stretching, retraction, relaxation, annealing, etc.) relevant to industrial processes. These include specific orientation behavior of each phase, block or filler, crystallization, relaxation and orientation state. It is also suited to track reaction rates and products in polymers undergoing thermal or photo curing.
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- E Unsal
- Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-0301, USA
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Manning C, Aagten-Murphy D, Pellicano E. The development of speed discrimination abilities. Vision Res 2012; 70:27-33. [PMID: 22903088 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2012] [Revised: 08/07/2012] [Accepted: 08/08/2012] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The processing of speed is a critical part of a child's visual development, allowing children to track and interact with moving objects. Despite such importance, no study has investigated the developmental trajectory of speed discrimination abilities or precisely when these abilities become adult-like. Here, we measured speed discrimination thresholds in 5-, 7-, 9-, 11-year-olds and adults using random dot stimuli with two different reference speeds (slow: 1.5 deg/s; fast: 6 deg/s). Sensitivity for both reference speeds improved exponentially with age and, at all ages, participants were more sensitive to the faster reference speed. However, sensitivity to slow speeds followed a more protracted developmental trajectory than that for faster speeds. Furthermore, sensitivity to the faster reference speed reached adult-like levels by 11 years, whereas sensitivity to the slower reference speed was not yet adult-like by this age. Different developmental trajectories may reflect distinct systems for processing fast and slow speeds. The reasonably late development of speed processing abilities may be due to inherent limits in the integration of neuronal responses in motion-sensitive areas in early childhood.
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- Catherine Manning
- Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
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Richard IH, McDermott MP, Kurlan R, Lyness JM, Como PG, Pearson N, Factor SA, Juncos J, Serrano Ramos C, Brodsky M, Manning C, Marsh L, Shulman L, Fernandez HH, Black KJ, Panisset M, Christine CW, Jiang W, Singer C, Horn S, Pfeiffer R, Rottenberg D, Slevin J, Elmer L, Press D, Hyson HC, McDonald W. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of antidepressants in Parkinson disease. Neurology 2012; 78:1229-36. [PMID: 22496199 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e3182516244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) in the treatment of depression in Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS A total of 115 subjects with PD were enrolled at 20 sites. Subjects were randomized to receive an SSRI (paroxetine; n = 42), an SNRI (venlafaxine extended release [XR]; n = 34), or placebo (n = 39). Subjects met DSM-IV criteria for a depressive disorder, or operationally defined subsyndromal depression, and scored >12 on the first 17 items of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D). Subjects were followed for 12 weeks (6-week dosage adjustment, 6-week maintenance). Maximum daily dosages were 40 mg for paroxetine and 225 mg for venlafaxine XR. The primary outcome measure was change in the HAM-D score from baseline to week 12. RESULTS Treatment effects (relative to placebo), expressed as mean 12-week reductions in HAM-D score, were 6.2 points (97.5% confidence interval [CI] 2.2 to 10.3, p = 0.0007) in the paroxetine group and 4.2 points (97.5% CI 0.1 to 8.4, p = 0.02) in the venlafaxine XR group. No treatment effects were seen on motor function. CONCLUSIONS Both paroxetine and venlafaxine XR significantly improved depression in subjects with PD. Both medications were generally safe and well tolerated and did not worsen motor function. CLASSIFICATION OF EVIDENCE This study provides Class I evidence that paroxetine and venlafaxine XR are effective in treating depression in patients with PD.
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- I H Richard
- University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.
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Aigbirhio FI, Allen J, Arrowsmith RL, Athlan A, Badman GT, Bayly SR, Bedford R, Botting NP, Bragg RA, Brasseur D, Bushby N, Cable KM, Chan F, Christlieb M, Churchill GC, Collison D, Denoux M, Dilworth JR, Farrar G, Gotfredsen CH, Greaney MF, Harding JR, Harris P, Harwood SJ, Heglund IF, Hendry D, Hosseini M, Johnston JS, Jones S, Jordan A, Killick DA, Kitson SL, Kowalczyk RM, Lawrie KWM, Lockley WJS, Madge D, Manning C, Marshall LJ, McNeill AH, Newman JJ, Pascu SI, Roy S, Schofield J, Shanmugham MS, Shipley NJ, Simmonds AJ, Smith D, Smith SL, Steward OR, Tanner D, Travers JG, Tyrrell RM, Vital P, Waghorn PA, Warrington B, Watters W, Willcocks K, Williams GD, Young CG, Zhong J. Abstracts of the 18th international isotope society (UK group) symposium: synthesis & applications of labelled compounds 2009. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/jlcr.1751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Swerdlow RH, Miller BB, Lopes MBS, Mandell JW, Wooten GF, Damgaard P, Manning C, Fowler M, Brashear HR. Autosomal dominant subcortical gliosis presenting as frontotemporal dementia. Neurology 2009; 72:260-7. [PMID: 19153373 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000339484.61490.a4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To describe a multigenerational kindred with a frontotemporal dementia clinical syndrome (FTDS), extensive subcortical gliosis pathology, and autosomal dominant genetics. METHODS Clinical, imaging, and pathologic evaluations of multiple family members. RESULTS Symptom onset commonly occurred in the fifth or sixth decade, although some kindred members did not develop obvious symptoms until their eighth decade. White matter changes were prominent on both MRI and CT imaging. Results from six brain autopsy evaluations showed consistent but varying degrees of pathology that, while unique, share some histologic similarities with leukodystrophies. These brains were notably devoid of both tau- and ubiquitin-containing inclusions. CONCLUSIONS Subcortical gliosis in this kindred arises from mutation of a novel gene or else represents a unique frontotemporal dementia clinical syndrome variant caused by mutation of an already known gene. Clinical relevance and research implications are discussed.
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- R H Swerdlow
- University of Kansas School of Medicine, Landon Center on Aging, MS 2012, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
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Vater C, Manning C, Millar H, McCabe F, Chen Q, Anderson G, Steeves R, Lai K, Lutz R. 529 POSTER Anti-tumor efficacy of the integrin-targeted immunoconjugate IMGN388 in preclinical models. EJC Suppl 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6349(08)72463-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Åberg G, Aigbirhio FI, Alexakis E, Al-Maharik N, Almi M, Ambacher Y, Andersson S, Athlan A, Badman G, Baldwin SA, Baumann M, Baxendale IR, Botting NP, Bragg RA, Brown JA, Burton A, Bushby N, Cable K, Campbell G, Carr R, Carroll M, Chen L, Christlieb M, Davies P, Ellames GJ, Ellis W, Elmore C, Fryatt T, Geach N, Harding JR, Hartmann S, Harwood S, Hayward JJ, Henderson PJF, Herbert RB, Heys JR, Hölzl S, Hopkin MD, Horn P, Ilyas T, Irvine S, Jackson SD, Jin J, Keats A, Kennedy AR, Kerr WJ, Kitching MO, Landreau C, Lanners S, Lawrence R, Lawrie KWM, Ley SV, Little G, Lockley WJS, Maier D, Manning C, McNeill A, Middleton DA, Montgomery S, Morrison JJ, Mrzljak L, Newman J, Newsome J, Nikbin-Roudsari N, Nilsson GN, Oldfield MF, Patching SG, Procter DJ, Randall G, Robertson AA, Rummel CS, Rustidge D, Sherhod R, Shipley N, Smith CD, Smith CJ, Smith DI, Song C, Tamborini L, Waterhouse I, Watts A, Werkheiser JL, Williams G, Willis CL, Woodward P, Yan R, Young G, Zhang Q. 16th International Isotope Society (UK group) Symposium. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/jlcr.1513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Watson M, Briganti E, Skinner T, Manning C. Self-management strategies for adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Hippokratia 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd002103.pub2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Pettit AR, Walsh NC, Manning C, Goldring SR, Gravallese EM. RANKL protein is expressed at the pannus-bone interface at sites of articular bone erosion in rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2006; 45:1068-76. [PMID: 16490750 DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kel045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVES Receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand (RANKL) and osteoprotegerin (OPG) have been demonstrated to be critical regulators of osteoclast generation and activity. In addition, RANKL has been implicated as an important mediator of bone erosion in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the expression of RANKL and OPG at sites of pannus invasion into bone has not been examined. The present study was undertaken to further elucidate the contribution of this cytokine system to osteoclastogenesis and subsequent bone erosion in RA by examining the pattern of protein expression for RANKL, OPG and the receptor activator of NF-kappaB (RANK) in RA at sites of articular bone erosion. METHODS Tissues from 20 surgical procedures from 17 patients with RA were collected as discarded materials. Six samples contained only synovium or tenosynovium remote from bone, four samples contained pannus-bone interface with adjacent synovium and 10 samples contained both synovium remote from bone and pannus-bone interface with adjacent synovium. Immunohistochemistry was used to characterize the cellular pattern of RANKL, RANK and OPG protein expression immediately adjacent to and remote from sites of bone erosion. RESULTS Cellular expression of RANKL protein was relatively restricted in the bone microenvironment; staining was focal and confined largely to sites of osteoclast-mediated erosion at the pannus-bone interface and at sites of subchondral bone erosion. RANK-expressing osteoclast precursor cells were also present in these sites. OPG protein expression was observed in numerous cells in synovium remote from bone but was more limited at sites of bone erosion, especially in regions associated with RANKL expression. CONCLUSIONS The pattern of RANKL and OPG expression and the presence of RANK-expressing osteoclast precursor cells at sites of bone erosion in RA contributes to the generation of a local microenvironment that favours osteoclast differentiation and activity. These data provide further evidence implicating RANKL in the pathogenesis of arthritis-induced joint destruction.
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- A R Pettit
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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