Prefrontal Hemodynamic Activity and Prospective Memory Failures in Caregivers of Autistic Children: A NIRS Study

Lab based study exploring whether caregivers of autistic children, a well-known chronically stressed group, might make more errors on an objective test of prospective memory. Whether reductions in cerebral blood flow, measured with NIRS, underlie the effect of caring for an autistic child on poorer M will also be explored

本项实验室研究旨在探讨：自闭症儿童的照护者——这一公认的慢性应激群体——是否会在前瞻记忆（prospective memory）的客观测试中出现更多失误。此外，本研究还将探究通过近红外光谱技术（Near-Infrared Spectroscopy，NIRS）检测到的脑血流量降低，是否为照护自闭症儿童导致前瞻记忆表现受损的潜在机制。