Results of the research of olfactory functions in children with autism spectrum disorders

Abstract

Participants with Asperger's syndrome and high functioning autism, in comparison to healthy controls, performed significantly worse at odor detection. There was no significant difference in the total olfactory identification between the two groups.

Keywords

• Autism
• Asperger's syndrome
• olfactory
• identification
• treshold
• Sniffin' Sticks