ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2019
Emotional Arousal During Social Stress in Young Adults With Autism: Insights From Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability and Self-Report.
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- A Comprehensive Investigation of Social Anxiety and Social Evaluative Stress in Autistic Children and Adolescents and Specific Learning Disorders.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Resting Heart Rate Variability and Emotion Dysregulation in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Toward feeling, understanding, and caring: The development of empathy in young autistic children.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2023Article
- Autistic Traits, Arousal, and Gender Features in a Nonclinical Sample of Italian Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Social-Pragmatic Inferencing, Visual Social Attention and Physiological Reactivity to Complex Social Scenes in Autistic Young Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Development and validation of a system for the prediction of challenging behaviors of people with autism spectrum disorder based on a smart wearable shirt: A mixed-methods design.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Transdermal Electrical Neuromodulation for Anxiety and Sleep Problems in High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: Feasibility and Preliminary Findings.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Article
- The effect of ambient sounds on decision-making and heart rate variability in autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2021Article
- Social Interaction Skill Intervention for Autistic Adults with Intellectual Disability and Limited Language: A Pilot of the SKILL Program.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Cardiac Startle Response and Clinical Outcomes in Preschool Children With Fragile X Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Heart Rate Variability in Schizophrenia and Autism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Trial-to-Trial Variability in Electrodermal Activity to Odor in Autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2020Article
- Emerging biomarkers in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review.Annals of translational medicine · 2019Review
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Abstract
In order to better understand which factors play a role in non-adaptive social behavior in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) we looked into physiological arousal and awareness of one's own emotions. Heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) were measured during a public speaking task in 51 young adults with ASD and 28 typically developing (TD) controls. The results showed no significant group differences in baseline HR/HRV, HR reactivity (change from baseline to the speaking task) or self-reported emotional awareness. However, adults with ASD showed significantly lower HRV reactivity (p = .023, d = 0.6) compared to TD adults. These results suggest a mismatch between arousal regulation and emotional awareness, which may be related to problems in social adaptation in ASD.
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