Postural control and emotion in children with autism spectrum disorders

Goulème, Nathalie; Scheid, Isabelle; Peyre, Hugo; Seassau, Magali; Maruani, Anna; Delorme, Richard; Bucci, Maria Pia

doi:10.1515/tnsci-2017-0022

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“…Also, we observed high mean velocities in subjects with ASD, which is correlated to the muscular effort requested to improve the postural control. These results were in accordance with previous findings by our groups 28 . Surprisingly, the rehabilitation program failed to improve the mean surface area of the CoP.…”

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“…In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of a short visual-postural training rehabilitation in children with ASD. We previously reported poor postural control in these children, specifically in the context of somatosensory input deficits 27,28 . We thus hypothesized that children with ASD could improve their baseline postural instability by engaging them in a short training rehabilitation program based on their visual abilities.…”

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Short rehabilitation training program may improve postural control in children with autism spectrum disorders: preliminary evidences

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Autism Spectrum Disorders subjects (ASD) is characterized by postural control deficits. This study aimed to explore the effect of a short postural rehabilitation training program on postural capabilities in children with ASD. Two groups (G1 and G2) of twenty children with ASD of IQ-, sex-and age-matched (mean age 11.7 ± 2.4 years) were included in this study. Posture was recorded by using the Balance Quest from Framiral on unstable platform in three different viewing conditions. The rehabilitation program consisted in two distinct postural control training exercises. Postural recordings were performed twice at T1 and T2 for both groups of children. Between T1 and T2 a 6-minute postural training was performed by the G1 group only, while the G2 group had a 6-minute of rest. Children were allocated randomly to the G1 or G2 groups. At T1, postural instability was similar for both groups of ASD children (G1 and G2) desp+\ite viewing conditions. At T2, we observed an improvement of postural control related to a mixed effect of training rehabilitation but also of test-retest. Knowing the potential of new rehabilitation strategies, the impact of postural control deficit in ASD children needs to be reconsidered. Well design case-control studies are requested to ensure scientific validity of postural rehabilitation training program. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by social communication and social interaction deficits, associated with the presence of restricted, repetitive and stereotyped behaviors 1. Sensorimotor deficits as well as fine and gross motor skill impairment are consistently reported in children with ASD and correlated with the severity of social communication impairment 2,3. Sensory abnormalities are frequently the earliest identifiable clinical features of developmental trajectory impairments 4,5. Similarly to social communication deficit, motor impairments may represent core features of autism when considering a broader spectrum of symptom 6. Several groups measured postural sway in children with ASD and showed that affected children were significantly more unstable than children with neurotypical development 7,8. A larger surface area of the center of pressure (COP) was observed in children with ASD with respect to control participants 9-13 , associated with an increased COP velocity 10,11,14. Postural instability in children with ASD was also more significant when somatosensory inputs were affected, such as standing on an unstable platform with foams under the feet or when wearing a vibrating apparatus on the neck 7,13,15-18. All of these studies reported a significantly larger body sway displacement and/or faster sway velocity in subjects with ASD compared to peers with typical neurodevelopment. It was most likely due to a reduced

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Short rehabilitation training program may improve postural control in children with autism spectrum disorders: preliminary evidences

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“…Previous studies have documented the developmental progression of the ability to maintain an upright posture that is accompanied by decreases in postural sway 8 . Several studies with older children with ASD have documented deficiencies in postural control, reflected in the presence of postural sway, which is accentuated when children with ASD are viewing arousing stimuli, including complex multi-sensory and social stimuli 9 – 11 . Less is known about the presence of postural sway in young children with ASD.…”

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Atypical postural control can be detected via computer vision analysis in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder

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Evidence suggests that differences in motor function are an early feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One aspect of motor ability that develops during childhood is postural control, reflected in the ability to maintain a steady head and body position without excessive sway. Observational studies have documented differences in postural control in older children with ASD. The present study used computer vision analysis to assess midline head postural control, as reflected in the rate of spontaneous head movements during states of active attention, in 104 toddlers between 16–31 months of age (Mean = 22 months), 22 of whom were diagnosed with ASD. Time-series data revealed robust group differences in the rate of head movements while the toddlers watched movies depicting social and nonsocial stimuli. Toddlers with ASD exhibited a significantly higher rate of head movement as compared to non-ASD toddlers, suggesting difficulties in maintaining midline position of the head while engaging attentional systems. The use of digital phenotyping approaches, such as computer vision analysis, to quantify variation in early motor behaviors will allow for more precise, objective, and quantitative characterization of early motor signatures and potentially provide new automated methods for early autism risk identification.

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“…The authors presented several possible explanations for this finding, such as increased arousal and/or dual-tasking effects. A comparable paradigm was used by Gouleme et al (2017) , involving faces displaying various emotions. One of the findings was that children with ASD exhibited more sway (greater sway path length), especially when confronted with happy and sad faces.…”

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Balance Performance in Autism: A Brief Overview

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Emck

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Children with autism not only have limited social and communicative skills but also have motor abnormalities, such as poor timing and coordination of balance. Moreover, impaired gross motor skills hamper participation with peers. Balance control is interesting from a cognitive science perspective, since it involves a complex interplay between information processing, motor planning, and timing and sequencing of muscle movements. In this paper, we discuss the background of motor problems in children with autism, focusing on how posture is informed by sensory information processing. We also discuss the neurobiological basis of balance problems, and how this is related to anxiety in this group. We then discuss possible avenues for treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms, especially as regards movement-related interventions. Finally, we present a theoretical outlook and discuss whether some of the symptoms in ASD can be understood from an embodied cognition perspective.

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Postural control and emotion in children with autism spectrum disorders

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Short rehabilitation training program may improve postural control in children with autism spectrum disorders: preliminary evidences

Short rehabilitation training program may improve postural control in children with autism spectrum disorders: preliminary evidences

Atypical postural control can be detected via computer vision analysis in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder

Balance Performance in Autism: A Brief Overview

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