Clinical and parental predictors of emotion regulation following cognitive behaviour therapy in children with autism.

Children with autism commonly experience difficulty controlling their emotions. Although existing treatments are successful in teaching critical emotion regulation skills, not all children improve. It is important to identify the factors that influence treatment response to be able to reach more children.

Enhanced antisaccade abilities in children with Tourette syndrome: the Gap-effect Reversal.

Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a childhood onset disorder of motor and vocal tics. The neural networks underlying TS overlap with those of saccade eye movements. Thus, deviations on saccadic tasks can provide important information about psychopathology of TS.

Smooth pursuit and fixation ability in children with Tourette syndrome.

Objective: The smooth pursuit eye movements and fixation ability of children aged 8 to 16 years with Tourette syndrome (TS) were examined.

Background: Although several studies have examined the saccadic ability of patients with TS, there have been only a few studies examining pursuit ability in TS.

Method: Pursuit gain (eye velocity/target velocity) and intrusive saccades during fixation were measured in children with TS-only, TS+attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and TS+ADHD+obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and in controls (8 to 16 y).

Mixed pro and antisaccade performance in children and adults.

Pro and antisaccades are usually presented in blocks of similar type but they can also be presented such that prosaccade and antisaccade eye movements are mixed and a cue, usually the shape/colour of the fixation target or the peripheral target, determines which type of eye movement is required in a particular trial. A mixed-saccade task theoretically equalizes the inhibitory requirements for pro and antisaccades. Using a mixed-saccade task paradigm the aims of the study were to: 1) compare pro and antisaccades of children, 2) compare performance of children and adults and 3) explore the effect of increased working memory load in adults.

Children's pursuit eye movements: a developmental study.

We examined the pursuit eye movements of adults and three groups of children 4-6, 8-10, 12-16 years of age. The first experiment compared tracking performance of a partially occluded target with that of a fully visible target. The second experiment examined pursuit abilities of children using a non-cognitive source of information for motion, i.