2015 Journal of autism and developmental disorders
* Autonomic dysregulation during sensory stimulation in children with autism spectrum disorder.
- Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity during sensory stimulation was measured in 59 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ages 6-9 in comparison to 30 typically developing controls. Multivariate comparisons revealed significant differences between groups in the respiratory sinus arrhythmia (parasympathetic measure) vector of means across sensory stimuli (p = 0.02) and in change from domain to domain (p = 0.01). Sympathetic activity, measured by pre-ejection period, did not differ significantly between groups, although it was higher in ASD participants. Findings suggest that participants with ASD demonstrated a different pattern of parasympathetic activity during sensory stimulation. Findings are discussed in relation to the biological mechanisms of sensory processing in autism, insight into the autism phenotype, and the utility of ANS activity as an outcomes marker.
=>きわめて, 意味深く, 意味ありげに
Overview of adv significantly
The adv significantly has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (6) significantly -- (in a statistically significant way; "the two groups differed
significantly")
2. (3) significantly -- (in a significant manner; "our budget will be significantly affected by
these new cuts")
3. importantly, significantly -- (in an important way or to an important degree; "more importantly,
Weber held that the manifold meaning attached to the event by the social scientist could alter his
definition of the concrete event itself")
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