Development and Brain Systems in Autism

Marcel Adam Just, Kevin A. Pelphrey

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781135103125
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

This volume covers several perspectives on autism which bring together the most recent scientific views of the nature of this disorder. A number of themes organize major developments and emerging areas in autism:

• Cognitive and neural systems development: how autism arises in the behavior and thought of very young children.
• Discovering brain mechanisms underlying social and cognitive deficits in autism: how we can explain "social awkwardness" and poor language comprehension in terms of malfunctions of brain mechanisms, revealed by fMRI studies of people with autism.
• Integrating information about genes, brain, and biological mechanisms with behavioral evidence.
• Linking the science of autism with lives lived: how the new information about autism impacts people with autism and real-world considerations.

Index

Page numbers in italics denote tables, those in bold denote figures.

abilities 20, 29, 96, 125, 152, 232, 239; cognitive 151; communicative 22, 69; intellectual 21, 23, 109; language 22, 68, 138; to respond 65; social 28; thinking 229

abnormalities 23, 36, 41, 50, 54, 95, 125, 180, 188–9, 192, 204, 213, 227, 230–2, 234; anatomical 55; brain 68, 231, 238; chromosome 86–7; connectivity 55; FFG 164; gray matter 57; sensory 9; social interaction 26; striatal 65; volumetric 37, 39; white matter 36 37, 55 56

Abrahams, B.S. 83–4, 87–8, 92–3, 95–6, 123, 227, 235, 237

abstract 6, 21; pattern 80, 204

acute stress disorders 27–8

adolescents 21, 41; adolescence 14, 20, 22, 27–8, 184; with Asperger syndrome 30; with autism 37, 42, 183

Adolphs, R. 179, 211

adults 13, 68, 124, 170, 229, 234; with AS 19, 21, 27, 29, 228; with ASD 37, 42, 108, 110–11, 113–14, 165–6, 189, 229, 231, 239; developing 154– 5; neurotypical 69, 154, 160; with TD 74

Alarcón, M. 91–2, 96

Alexander, A.L. 37, 42, 49

Allison, T. 131, 151–5, 167, 190

Amaral, D.G. 153, 167

American Psychiatric Association 106, 153

amino acids 38, 237

amygdala 67, 72, 152–3, 162, 165, 168–71, 181, 204, 208–9, 2...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Contributors
• Section I Lives Lived with Autism
• 1 My Experience with Visual Thinking and Sensory Oversensitivity The Need for Research on Sensory Problems
• 2 Hans Asperger and his Patients
• Section II Brain Mechanisms and Genetic Influences
• 3 A Theory of Autism Based on Frontal-Posterior Underconnectivity
• 4 Implicit Learning and Reward Systems Deficit in Autism A Mechanism for Social Learning Deficit?
• 5 Autism Susceptibility Genes and Normal Variation Connecting Genes to Brain Structure and Function
• Section III Developmental Processes in Autism
• 6 What Do Early Signs Tell Us about the Developmental Roots of Autism?
• 7 Social Engagement in the First Two Years of Life in Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Section IV Neural Systems in Social and Emotional Processes
• Brain Mechanisms for Social Perception Dysfunction in Autism
• 9 Neural Representations of Self versus Other Lessons from Autism
• 10 Brain Connectivity and Emotional Processing in Autism
• Section V Overview
• 11 Organizing Principles for Austism Research Where Do We Go From Here?
• Index