Electronic Resource
Palo Alto, Calif.
:
Annual Reviews
Annual Review of Neuroscience
28 (2005), S. 109-126
ISSN:
0147-006X
Source:
Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection 1932-2001ff
Topics:
Biology
,
Medicine
Notes:
Although the neurobiological understanding of autism has been increasing exponentially, the diagnosis of autism spectrum conditions still rests entirely on behavioral criteria. Autism is therefore most productively approached using a combination of biological and psychological theory. The triad of behavioral abnormalities in social function, communication, and restricted and repetitive behaviors and interests can be explained psychologically by an impaired capacity for empathizing, or modeling the mental states governing the behavior of people, along with a superior capacity for systemizing, or inferring the rules governing the behavior of objects. This empathizing-systemizing theory explains other psychological models such as impairments of executive function or central coherence, and may have a neurobiological basis in abnormally low activity of brain regions subserving social cognition, along with abnormally high activity of regions subserving lower-level, perceptual processingĐ??a pattern that may result from a skewed balance of local versus long-range functional connectivity.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.neuro.27.070203.144137
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