Sex-Specific Association Between High Traumatic Stress Exposure and Social Cognitive Functioning in Youths.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Traumatic stressful events (TSEs) during childhood and adolescence are associated with increased risk for psychopathology and cognitive impairment. Aberrations in social cognition may contribute to the psychopathology risk. We examined performance differences on social cognitive measures between youths with high TSE exposure and no TSE exposure and how these effects vary in female and male individuals.

Methods

The Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort investigates clinical and cognitive phenotypes in a U.S. youth (aged 8-21 years) community population. Here we compared performance in social cognition tasks between youths with high exposure (≥3 TSEs, n = 830) and youths with no exposure (n = 5202). Three social cognition tasks were analyzed: 1) age differentiation

SUBMITTER: Barzilay R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6177332 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature