Good news! Not only people affected with autism experience sensory hypersensitivity! On the other hand, perhaps too many people actually suffer from sensory hyposensitivity!
"MIT and Brown University neuroscientists found that mice lacking a protein called Shank3, which has been previously linked with autism, were more sensitive to a touch on their whiskers than genetically normal mice."
The neural basis of sensory hypersensitivity | MIT News: A neural circuit that appears to underlie sensory hypersensitivity has been found in a mouse model of autism, offering a possible strategy for developing new treatments. The study comes from MIT and Brown University.
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