Individuals with Autistic Traits Exhibit Heightened Alexithymia But Intact Interoceptive-Exteroceptive Sensory Integration

This study administered the behavioural paradigms of the HTT and the IESJ as well as other self-report scales to 119 typically-developing youths. Individuals with lower autistic traits (n = 30) showed comparable interoceptive accuracy, exteroceptive accuracy, and balancing scores as their higher autistic traits counterparts (n = 33). Taken together, the high autistic traits subgroup exhibited higher levels of alexithymia but not empathy or interoception than the low autistic traits subgroup.PMID:34286394 | DOI:10.1007/s10803-021-05199-y

Source: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - July 21, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Han-Xue Yang Han-Yu Zhou Hong Zheng Yi Wang Yan-Yu Wang Simon S Y Lui Raymond C K Chan Source Type: research