ESPE Abstracts

Individuals with TS exhibit a distinct cognitive profile. They show deficits in visual-spatial and visual-motor skills, such as mental rotation, object assembly, design copying, visual memory and attention, deficits in arithmetic abilities, executive function, and some language aspects, such as verbal fluency. Other intellectual capacities, however, are preserved in TS, and in some domains, such as linguistic receptive and expressive abilities, performance is, at times, even s...

Background: Patients with TS frequently demonstrate impairments in social cognition difficulties, visual-spatial processing, face and emotion perception.Objective and hypotheses: We examined face perception in the context of perceptual visual dysfunctions and social cognition skills in TS.Method: 26 young women with TS on estrogen replacement therapy, and 26 control participants. They were tested on various cognitive and psychologi...