Autism: Mind and Brain

Autism: mind and brain provides an overview of research on autism and highlights techniques that will progress future understanding. With contributions from leaders in autism research, the book describes advances, discusses ways forward for future research, and presents techniques for understanding this disorder.

The aim of this book is to consolidate our knowledge of the characteristics and manifestations of autism, whilst introducing new techniques to further this field of research. This will be a valuable resource for both established and new researchers who wish to understand how we can take forth our knowledge of autism and apply innovative technologies in future research investigations.

Klappentext
Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder that allows a unique window on the relationship between mind and brain. Autism is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication as well as repetitive behaviors and restricted interests. The consensus of this disorder for everyday life adaptation are extremely variable. Studies indicate that the number of diagnosed cases of Autism, or autistic spectrum disorder, is increasing with around 0.6% of the population affected. Though infantile autism was first described almost 60 years ago and autism has been the subject of intense research activities even since, the origin of the condition is still not understood.

Inhalt
Introduction; 1. Understanding autism: insights from mind and brain; 2. A retrospective analysis of the clinical case records of 'autistic psychopaths' diagnosed by Hans Asperger and his team at the University Children's Hospital, Vienna; 3. Identifying neurocognitive phenotypes in autism; 4. Why is joint attention a pivotal skill in autism?; 5. Does the perception of moving eyes trigger reflexive visual orienting in autism?; 6. The pathogenesis of autism: insights from congenital blindness; 7. The enactive mind, or from actions to cognition: lessons from autism; 8. The systemizing quotient: an investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism and normal sex differences; 9. Towards an understanding of the mechanisms of weak central coherence effects: experiments in visual configural learning and auditory perception; 10. Disentangling weak coherence and executive dysfunction: planning drawing in autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; 11. Autism and movement disturbance; 12. Investigating individual differences in brain abnormalities in autism; 13. The role of the fusiform face area in social cognition: implications for the pathobiology of autism

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