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Freaking Out and Shutting Down in Autism: From Neuroscience to Narrative
Dr. Greg Siegle, from the University of Pittsburgh, will present a neuroscience-based framework for understanding reactions to emotional and sensory stimuli in autism that can seem very strong or almost absent, and how the same individuals may vary from one to the other type of reactivity. To support this framework, Dr. Siegle will work to integrate individuals’ neuroimaging data and their narratives, which autistic participants have said they want to have heard and understood by others. Dr. Siegle will relate these data to outcomes in a neuroimaging clinical trial of technologies to address dissociation.
Topics Will Include:
- High emotional reactivity and emotional “shutting down” may share similar physiology and neural mechanisms
- Autistic individuals may experience emotional stimuli outside the emotion domain, e.g., as cognitively exhausting and physically painful
- Learning control over “shutting down” may involve learning to process discomfort in ways that do not involve up- or down-regulating emotional reactions.
About our presenter:
Dr. Greg Siegle, from the University of Pittsburgh, will present a neuroscience-based framework for understanding reactions to emotional and sensory stimuli in autism that can seem very strong or almost absent, and how the same individuals may vary from one to the other type of reactivity. To support this framework, Dr. Siegle will work to integrate individuals’ neuroimaging data and their narratives, which autistic participants have said they want to have heard and understood by others. Dr. Siegle will relate these data to outcomes in a neuroimaging clinical trial of technologies to address dissociation.
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