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Dr Claude jean paris
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Trouble du spectre autistique identifiable des l'âge de 6 mois , une perturbation dans l'interaction avec l'entourage basée sur le regard  et sa poursuite .

Dr claude Jean Paris

Background

From birth, infants show a preference for the faces, gaze, and voices of others. In individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) these biases seem to be disturbed. The source of these disturbances is not well-understood, but recent efforts have shown that the spontaneous deployment of attention to social targets might be atypical as early as 6 months of age. The nature of this atypical behavior and the conditions under which it arises are currently unknown.

Methods

We used eye-tracking to examine the gaze patterns of 6-month-old infants (n = 99) at high risk (n = 57) and low risk (n = 42) for developing ASD as they viewed faces that were: 1) still; 2) moving and expressing positive affect; or 3) speaking. Clinical outcomes were determined through a comprehensive assessment at the age of 3 years. The scanning patterns of infants later diagnosed with ASD were compared with infants without an ASD outcome.

Results

Infants who later developed ASD spent less time looking at the presented scenes in general than other infants. When these infants looked at faces, their looking toward the inner features of faces decreased compared with the other groups only when the presented face was speaking.

Conclusions

Our study suggests that infants later diagnosed with ASD have difficulties regulating attention to complex social scenes. It also suggests that the presence of speech might uniquely disturb the attention of infants who later develop ASD at a critical developmental point when other infants are acquiring language and learning about their social world.

Key Words

• Autism; 
• eye-tracking; 
• faces; 
• infants; 
• social attention; 
• speech

Address correspondence to Frederick Shic, Ph.D., Yale Child Study Center, 40 Temple Street, Suite 7D, New Haven, CT 06510

Le sommeil trop ou pas assez module l'humeur des adolescents
Dr Claude Jean PARIS

Study Objectives:

To examine the prospective, reciprocal association between sleep deprivation and depression among adolescents.

Design:

A community-based two-wave cohort study.

Setting:

A metropolitan area with a population of over 4 million.

Participants:

4,175 youths 11-17 at baseline, and 3,134 of these followed up a year later.

Measurements:

Depression is measured using both symptoms of depression and DSM-IV major depression. Sleep deprivation is defined as ≤ 6 h of sleep per night.

Results:

Sleep deprivation at baseline predicted both measures of depression at follow-up, controlling for depression at baseline. Examining the reciprocal association, major depression at baseline, but not symptoms predicted sleep deprivation at follow-up.

Conclusion:

These results are the first to document reciprocal effects for major depression and sleep deprivation among adolescents using prospective data. The data suggest reduced quantity of sleep increases risk for major depression, which in turn increases risk for decreased sleep.

Citation:

Roberts RE; Duong HT. The prospective association between sleep deprivation and depression among adolescents. SLEEP 2014;37(2):239-244.