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A ‘choice’, an ‘addiction’, a way ‘out of the lost’: exploring self-injury in autistic people without intellectual disability

BACKGROUND: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) describes a phenomenon where individuals inflict deliberate pain and tissue damage to their bodies. Self-injurious behaviour is especially prevalent across the autism spectrum, but little is understood about the features and functions of self-injury for au...

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Autores principales: Moseley, R. L., Gregory, N. J., Smith, P., Allison, C., Baron-Cohen, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6458651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31007885
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-019-0267-3