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- - The text discusses the varying sensitivity to pain in individuals with autism, highlighting that previous research has yielded mixed results regarding whether people with autism are more or less sensitive to pain.
- - It focuses on the use of standardized methods, like Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST), to better understand pain perception in autism, noting that existing studies using these methods are limited, especially for children.
- - The text emphasizes the need for new or adjusted research protocols to accurately assess pain perception in autistic children, while also addressing complex ethical challenges in obtaining both subjective and objective data.
Article Abstract
Sensory features of autism include hypo- or hyper-reactivity to pain; however, previous studies on pain in autism lead to conflicting results. Here, we present the state of the art and the methodological challenges concerning pain perception in autism, focusing on studies that used standardized protocol as Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST) to measure perception. Despite there are still scant evidences found with the use of QST, they have challenged the presumed hyposensitivity to pain in autisms, which emerged from parents' reports. Both, peripheral and central mechanisms, have been found involved in typical features of perception in autism. Nonetheless, evidences with controlled protocols are still scarce, and even scarcer are studies focused on children. Overall, complex ethical challenges have to be overcome in order to collect subjective and objective measures from autistic children. With heterogeneous neurodevelopmental features, or intellectual disability, novel or modified protocols are needed.
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