Astrid Gawronski

University of Cologne | UOC · Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen sind durch Störungen der sozialen Informationsverarbeitung und durch repetitive, stereotype Verhaltensweisen gekennzeichnet. Psychotherapeutisch ist als übergeordnetes Ziel die Erweiterung des Verhaltensrepertoires anzustreben, um flexiblere und situationsangepasste Reaktionen zu ermöglichen. Unter Berücksichtigung der b...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by disturbed social interaction and communication as well as stereotyped or repetitive behaviors and interests. Although adults with ASD often acquire complex compensatory strategies that help them master social situations in a rule-based fashion, they still show impairments in intuitive processing...

Zusammenfassung. Obwohl Personen mit hochfunktionalem Autismus häufig gute bis sehr gute Bildungsabschlüsse erreichen und sich für einen Beruf qualifizieren, sind sie häufig von Arbeitslosigkeit bedroht. In einer offenen Befragung wurden 102 spätdiagnostizierte erwachsene Patienten hinsichtlich ihres schulischen und beruflichen Werdeganges, ihrer b...

Females with high-functioning ASD are known to camouflage their autistic symptoms better than their male counterparts, making them prone to being under-ascertained and delayed in diagnostic assessment. Thus far the underlying cognitive processes that enable such successful socio-communicative adaptation are not well understood. The current results...

Herr B. ist ein 43-jähriger Informatiker, in Vollzeit angestellt als Softwareentwickler, bei dem im Alter von 39 Jahren erstmalig eine Störung aus dem Autismusspektrum diagnostiziert wurde. Ein diesbezüglicher Verdacht sei bereits im Kindesalter von seiner Mutter geäußert worden, da er bis zum zweiten Lebensjahr überhaupt nicht gesprochen und auch...

Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen sind durch Störungen der sozialen Informationsverarbeitung und durch repetitive, stereotype Verhaltensweisen gekennzeichnet. Auch wenn Kompensationsstrategien entwickelt wurden, bleibt autistischen Erwachsenen insbesondere die Verarbeitung nonverbaler Signale dauernd erschwert. Psychotherapeutisch ist als übergeordnetes...

As a result of the increased public interest in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), certain core manifestations of ASD-impaired social interaction and communication, bizarre interests-are now commonly recognized as being typical of autism, not only in children, but in adults as well. More often than before, general practitioners, neurologists, and psy...

Human-human interactions are of central relevance for the success in professional and occupational environments, which also substantially influence quality of life. This is especially true in the case of individuals with high-functioning autism (HFA), who experience deficits in social cognition that often lead to social exclusion and unemployment....

The first time diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) after passing childhood and adolescence is still considered a rare event. However, in recent years an increasing demand for diagnostic clarifications with suspected ASD in adulthood challenges this view. There is insufficient knowledge about the neuropsychological characterisation and psych...

In recent years there has been a strong increase in psychiatric diagnoses belonging to the autism spectrum in adulthood. For this diagnostic group of patients, often characterised by normal or above-average intelligence, i.e, high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome, only few adequate psychotherapeutic treatment options exist. In order to devel...

High-functioning autism (HFA) and Aspergers syndrome (AS) are autism spectrum disorders (ASD) characterised by disturbances in social interaction, both verbal and non-verbal communication and repetitive and/or restrictive behaviour since early childhood. Symptoms appear generally during early childhood and adolescence. The increasing need to clarif...

The goal of the study was to investigate the size of the corpus callosum (CC) and its subsegments in relation to total brain volume (TBV) as an empirical indicator of impaired connectivity in autism with special respect to gender. In MRI data sets of 29 adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) and 29 age-, gender- and IQ-matched control subjects,...

We investigated feelings of involvement evoked by nonverbal behaviour of dynamic virtual characters in 20 adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) and high IQ as well as 20 IQ-matched control subjects. The effects of diagnostic group showed that subjects with autism experienced less "contact" and "urge" to establish contact across conditions and l...

Deficits in social cognition and interaction, such as in mentalizing and imitation behavior, are hallmark features of autism spectrum disorders. Both imitation and mentalizing are at the core of the sense of agency, the awareness that we are the initiators of our own behavior. Little evidence exists regarding the sense of agency in autism. Thus, we...