Publications by authors named "Jennifer Quinde-Zlibut"
Sensory Processing and Anxiety: Within and Beyond the Autism Spectrum.
Curr Top Behav Neurosci
December 2024
In this article, we briefly overview how the expression, measurement, and treatment of anxiety in autism may be different from the general population. We review the literature on links between sensory processing differences and anxiety, which show transdiagnostic patterns but are an especially prominent feature of anxiety in autism. Specifically, we focus on how the sense of interoception, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF. Autistic individuals may show either or responsiveness to touch compared to non-autistic individuals. These behavioural responses depend on perceptual and evaluative mechanisms, which unfold sequentially and thus can be distinguished by exploring the timing of neural responses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: It is unclear whether atypical patterns of facial expression production metrics in autism reflect the dynamic and nuanced nature of facial expressions across people or a true diagnostic difference. Furthermore, the heterogeneity observed across autism symptomatology suggests a need for more adaptive and personalized social skills programs. Towards this goal, it would be useful to have a more concrete and empirical understanding of the different expressiveness profiles within the autistic population and how they differ from neurotypicals.
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- This study looked at how autistic people feel and understand emotions compared to others using a special test called the Multifaceted Empathy Test for juveniles (MET-J).
- Researchers tested 184 participants of different ages to see how emotions affect empathy, finding that autistic individuals showed some differences in how they reacted to happy and sad faces.
- The results suggest that autistic people may struggle a bit more with understanding emotions, which could make social interactions harder for them, and this information could help improve social support and tools for those with autism.
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia (SZ) exhibit multisensory processing difficulties and social impairments, with growing evidence that the former contributes to the latter. However, this work has largely reported on separate cohorts, introducing method variance as a barrier to drawing broad conclusions across studies. Further, very few studies have addressed touch, resulting in sparse knowledge about how these two clinical groups may integrate somatic information with other senses.
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- Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) display behavioral hyper-reactivity to light touch, but the study investigates if this is due to sensory differences or cognitive processing factors like attention and emotion.
- A study involving 88 individuals with ASD and 59 neurotypical participants found that those with ASD had lower sensitivity to touch detection but showed a more conservative response criterion compared to neurotypical peers.
- The findings indicate that the conservative nature of decision-making in children with ASD aligns more closely with adults rather than neurotypical children, highlighting a unique perceptual decision-making style tied to age and autism symptoms rather than just sensory detection.