'Uncertainty attunement' has explanatory value in understanding autistic anxiety

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: eloise.stark@psy.ox.ac.uk.
² Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK.
³ Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark.
⁵ Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.

Comment

Eloise Stark et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2021 Dec.

. 2021 Dec;25(12):1011-1012.

doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.09.006. Epub 2021 Oct 19.

¹ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: eloise.stark@psy.ox.ac.uk.
² Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK.
³ Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark.
⁵ Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.

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Keywords: anxiety; autism; cognition; predictive processing; uncertainty.

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Autism and intolerance of uncertainty: an ill-fitting pair.
Bervoets J, Milton D, Van de Cruys S. Bervoets J, et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2021 Dec;25(12):1009-1010. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.08.006. Epub 2021 Oct 19. Trends Cogn Sci. 2021. PMID: 34686441 No abstract available.