Assignment 21: Annotated Bibliography 3

Bakke, K. A., Howlin, P., Retterstøl, L., Kanavin, Ø. J., Heiberg, A., & Nærland, T. (2018). Effect of epilepsy on autism . symptoms in Angelman syndrome. Molecular Autism, 91-8. doi:10.1186/s13229-017-0185-1

Typically autism and epilepsy are found to coexist in children, but this article intended to further determine the extent to which these are correlated. This correlation was measured by using the Social Communication Questionnaire and the number of signed used to communicate in nonverbal children. These benchmarks were compared for 40 children in attempts to compare "the association between age of epilepsy onset, autism symptoms, genetic aberration and communication level." (Bakke 1)

Potential Quotes:

• "Age at epilepsy onset was highly correlated with SCQ score (r = − 0.61, p = 0.0004)." (Bakke 4)
• "Mean SCQ score for individuals without epilepsy was 13.6 (SD = 6.7) and with epilepsy 17.0 (SD = 5.6; p = 0.17); 58% used fewer than 20 signs to communicate." (Bakke 5)
• "The study provides support for the notion that seizures themselves contribute more to autism symptoms than expected from the underlying genetic pathology alone." (Bakke 7)

Each of the five contributing authors are known to be college professors who frequently conduct research. In addition this article was published in Molecular Autism, a peer reviewed journal. This article is also published in Galileo, a known credible source.

I will use the information in this article to build my basic understanding of seizures. In addition to discussing how seizures were linked to autism, it also gave a highly in depth overview of seizures and Angelman syndrome, which will be extremely helpful in my capstone project.