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Measuring the plasticity of social approach : a randomized controlled trial of the effects of the PEERS intervention on EEG asymmetry in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders . This study examined whether the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills ( PEERS : Social skills for teenagers with developmental and autism spectrum disorders : The PEERS treatment manual , Routledge , New York , 2010a ) affected neural function , via EEG asymmetry , in a randomized controlled trial of adolescents with Autism spectrum disorders ( ASD ) and a group of typically developing adolescents . Adolescents with ASD in PEERS shifted from right-hemisphere gamma-band EEG asymmetry before PEERS to left-hemisphere EEG asymmetry after PEERS , versus a waitlist ASD group . Left-hemisphere EEG asymmetry was associated with more social contacts and knowledge , and fewer symptoms of autism . Adolescents with ASD in PEERS no longer differed from typically developing adolescents in left-dominant EEG asymmetry at post-test . These findings are discussed via the Modifier Model of Autism ( Mundy et al . in Res Pract Persons Severe Disabl 32 ( 2 ) :124 , 2007 ) , with emphasis on remediating isolation/withdrawal in ASD .
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PEERS intervention
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Intervention_Physical
EEG asymmetry
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Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills ( PEERS :
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PEERS
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PEERS
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PEERS
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Outcome_Physical
neural function , via EEG asymmetry
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right-hemisphere gamma-band EEG asymmetry
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left-hemisphere EEG asymmetry
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Outcome_Physical
EEG asymmetry
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Outcome_Mental
social contacts and knowledge
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symptoms of autism
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Outcome_Physical
left-dominant EEG asymmetry
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Participant_Age
adolescents
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Participant_Condition
autism spectrum disorders
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teenagers
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autism spectrum disorders
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adolescents
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Autism spectrum disorders ( ASD )
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adolescents
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Adolescents
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ASD in PEERS
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Adolescents