Rethinking autism : variation and complexity
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Rethinking autism : variation and complexity
Academic Press, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The media, scientific researchers, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual all refer to "autism" as if it were a single disorder or a single disorder over a spectrum. However, autism is unlike any single disorder in a variety of ways. No single brain deficit is found to cause it, no single drug is found to affect it, and no single cause or cure has been found despite tremendous research efforts to find same. Rethinking Autism reviews the scientific research on causes, symptomology, course, and treatment done to date...and draws the potentially shocking conclusion that "autism" does not exist as a single disorder. The conglomeration of symptoms exists, but like fever, those symptoms aren't a disease in themselves, but rather a result of some other cause(s). Only by ceasing to think of autism as a single disorder can we ever advance research to more accurately parse why these symptoms occur and what the different and varied causes may be.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Autism Heterogeneity
Chapter 2 Autism Symptom Heterogeneity Exists in Family Members
Chapter 3 The Social Brain is a Complex Super-Network
Chapter 4 Genetic Risk Factors Link Autism to Many Other Disorders
Chapter 5 Environmental Risk Factors Link Autism to Many Other Outcomes
Chapter 6 Savant Skills, Superior Skills, and Intelligence Vary Widely in Autism
Chapter 7 Increasing Prevalence and the Problem of Diagnosis
Chapter 8 Autism Symptoms Exist but the Disorder Remains Elusive
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