Are you the parent or guardian of an autistic child? Are you aged 18+? Is your child aged 11-16? If you answered YES to all of the above… WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU AND YOUR CHILD! Why? This study aims to improve understanding of pain in autistic children by exploring how autistic Read more…
Hosted By Spectrum 29 July 2020, 3pm EDT (7pm UTC / 8pm BST) REGISTER Register to attend the virtual seminar, or receive a notification when the recording is posted. Michelle Failla Postdoctoral research fellow, Vanderbilt University Spectrum Bio David Moore Senior lecturer in psychology, Liverpool Read more…
The Autumn 2017 edition of the BNA Bulletin (free to all British Neuroscience Association Members!) which has just landed on the doormats, in-trays and inboxes of over 2000 people features a 2 page article on C-Tactile fibres, touch, and the work of SomAffect / LJMU Professor Francis McGlone. … “The Read more…
As part of SomAffect’s developing collaboration with Anton Varlamov & Galina Protnova at the Russian Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Francis McGlone & Adarsh Makdani were recently invited to help establish a Microneurography lab in Moscow. The first series of experiments proved extremely promising, and included Read more…
Research by SomAffect’s Francis McGlone appears in this month’s SFARI newsletter.
“The brains of people with autism respond differently to a gentle brush on the arm — a form of social touch — than do those of people without the disorder, according to a study published 5 June in Cerebral Cortex”
““I find it very exciting,” says Kamila Markram, Autism Project director at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, who proposed the intense world theory in 2007. The new study supports the idea that sensory overload is a key biomarker of autism.”
David Moore recently spoke to Sarah DeWeerdt for the Simons Foundation – Autism Research Initiative, about pain & autism.
Unseen agony: Dismantling autism’s house of pain
…“I was surprised by how little literature exists on autism and
pain,” says David Moore, senior lecturer in psychology atLiverpool John Moores University in the U.K., who last year published a review of the field…
Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K., who last year published a review of the field…