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Conceptualising compensation in neurodevelopmental disorders: Reflections from autism spectrum disorder

Lucy A. Livingston, Francesca Happé

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2017

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Summary

Within research into neurodevelopmental disorders, little is known about the mechanisms underpinning changes in symptom severity across development. When the behavioural presentation of a condition improves/symptoms lessen, this may be because core underlying atypicalities in cognition/neural function have ameliorated. An alternative possibility is 'compensation'; that the behavioural presentation appears improved, despite persisting deficits at cognitive and/or neurobiological levels. There is, however, currently no agreed technical definition of compensation or its behavioural, cognitive and neural characteristics. Furthermore, its workings in neurodevelopmental disorders have not been studied directly. Here, we review current evidence for compensation in neurodevelopmental disorders, us

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.06.005
Catalogue ID
SNmoj7nt2d-9f4j88
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