The study suggests that interoceptive accuracy significantly differs between typically-developing preschool children, adolescents and adults. The study also highlights the need for future study into preschool children with suspected autism spectrum disorders.
The study shows specific results on the neural correlation of social brain network and real-life social network size in both patients with schizophrenia and individuals with social anhedonia. In particular, both patients with established schizophrenia and individuals with subclinical features such as social anhedonia exhibit alteration in segregation and functional connectivity within the gener...
The research suggests that alexithymia may serve as an important node bridging interoceptive deficits, self-awareness, and empathic performance in individuals with Autistic traits. It highlights the importance of co-morbidity of alexithymia in clinical cases with ASD. Future study should take alexithymia into consideration for the study of interoceptive impairments and social deficits in ASD.
