Development and Brain Systems in Autism (Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series) - Hardcover

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9781848728660: Development and Brain Systems in Autism (Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series)
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ISBN 10: 1848728662 ISBN 13: 9781848728660
Publisher: Psychology Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Marcel Adam Just is the D. O. Hebb Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. His brain-imaging research investigates the biological mechanisms underlying the altered psychological processes in autism. His autism research has made several fundamental discoveries concerning differences in brain function, including findings of alterations in synchronization, in white matter communication tracts, and in the balance of frontal versus posterior activation.

Kevin A. Pelphrey is the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center. His research addresses fundamental questions regarding the typical and atypical development of brain mechanisms for social cognition in children with and without autism spectrum disorders.

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Publisher
Psychology Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1848728662
ISBN 13 
9781848728660
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
266
Editor
Just Marcel Adam, Pelphrey Kevin A.

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