Development and Brain Systems in Autism

• Author(s): Marcel Adam Just, Kevin Archer Pelphrey,
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Pages: 248
• ISBN_10: 1848728662
  ISBN_13: 9781848728660
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / Pediatrics , Psychology / General , Psychology / Developmental / Child , Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition , Psychology / Neuropsychology , Psychology / Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders , Psychology / Psychotherapy / General , Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience ,

Description:...

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.