Rethinking Autism: Variation and Complexity - Hardcover

Waterhouse, Lynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0124159613 ISBN 13: 9780124159617

Verlag: Academic Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Dr. Lynn Waterhouse was the Director of Child Behavior Study at The College of New Jersey for 31 years, and is currently a Professor in Global Graduate Programs at the College. NIMH, NICHD, and private funding agencies supported her autism research. She worked with Dr. Lorna Wing on the APA DSM-III-R diagnostic criteria for autism.

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• Verlag: Academic Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0124159613
• ISBN 13: 9780124159617
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
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