ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2024
Could Sensory Differences Be a Sex-Indifferent Biomarker of Autism? Early Investigation Comparing Tactile Sensitivity Between Autistic Males and Females.
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- The role of affective touch in mental illness: a systematic review of CT fiber dysregulation in psychological disorders and the therapeutic potential of CT fiber stimulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Adaptive Functioning, Sensory Processing, and Behavioral Problems in Autistic Children: The Moderating Role of Gender.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Cluster analysis based on sensory characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder and its impact on emotional and behavioral manifestations and parenting stress.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Mapping sensory sensitivity in autism.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Diminished Signal-to-Noise Ratio Disrupts Somatosensory Population Encoding and Drives Tactile Hyposensitivity in the Fmr1Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Modifying quantitative sensory testing to investigate tactile sensory function and behavioral reactivity in children with intellectual and developmental disabilities: establishing feasibility and testing sex, autism, and self-injury effects.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Social Skills and Sensory Profile, Emotion Regulation, and Empathizing/Systemizing in Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Atypical Sensory Processing in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Clinical Phenotypes in Preschool-Aged Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Forwarding the Science of Sensory Features in Autism and Related Conditions.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Similar overall expression, but different profiles, of autistic traits, sensory processing, and mental health between young adult males and females.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2023Article
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Abstract
Sensory differences are highly prevalent in autistic individuals. However, few studies have compared their presentation between autistic males and autistic females. We used psychophysics to assess and compare tactile perceptual sensitivity between autistic and non-autistic boys and girls aged between 8 and 12 years of age. While there were sex-differences of amplitude discrimination, frequency discrimination and order judgement thresholds, these sex-differences were not autism-specific. Mean RTs and detection thresholds were elevated in autism but were comparable between the sexes. Tactile sensitivity measures that are elevated in autism but are otherwise comparable between autistic males and autistic females suggest the possibility that certain sensory features could be used as sex-indifferent markers of autism. Further investigation with larger and more representative samples should be conducted before any stronger conclusions are made.
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