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Marine Bessé1,2, Shasha Morel-Kohlmeyer2,3, Emmanuelle Houy-Durand2,3

  • 1Centre de Recherches Sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage (CeRCA), Team "Vieillissement et Psychopathologie de la Mémoire" UMR CNRS 7295, University of Tours, University of Poitiers, Tours, France.

Autism Research : Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research
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Summary

Aging in autism shows no consistent pattern across studies. Research on cognitive and cerebral aging in autism is mixed, with varying results depending on study design and methodology.

Keywords:
agingautismcerebralcognitivesystematic review

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