Autism

[Michaelangelica]

An interesting lecture

AGE OF AUTISM: Part 1 David Kirby's Autism One Presentation: Metals, Myelin & Mitochondria Pathways to Autism?

 

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Social cognitive deficits link people with mild autism and relatives with BAP

 

Given a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests, both high-functioning people with autism and their relatives who show broad autism phenotype (BAP) share one psychological parameter most strongly: a deficit in social cognition, the ability to "read" psychological states from human faces or bodily motions.

 

This result from a new report in Archives of General Psychiatry pinpoints social cognition in autism as an important variable in genetic and brain studies.

http://www.searchmedica.com/search.do?q=autism+phenotype&useraction=search&ss=defLink&fr=true&c=ps&cid=smps-news-060209

[lemit]

Part of my training as a journalist was to be willing to ask stupid questions. I think I have a great one here.

 

I am impressed by this very thoughtful discussion of the causes of and potential cures for autism, but what's it doing in the Political Science forum?

 

Like I said, I'm trained to ask dumb questions. I'll try to read all the dumb answers.

 

Thanks.

 

--lemit