In The Neurobiology of Autism Margaret Bauman and Thomas Kemper bring together leading investigators from the field of autism to discuss advances in scientific research that point to a neurobiological basis for autism and to examine the clinical implications of the research. These authors present up-to-date accounts of their own research as well as provide comprehensive reviews of the work of others. The result is a compilation of information in a single source that will enable clinical investigators to begin to speculate about the seemingly disparate pieces of information already available, consider how they might fit together, and develop new ideas and avenues for further research.
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"Synthesizes some of the current research into the many puzzling clinical and biomedical questions around the spectrum of autistic disorders, as an aid to clinical investigators and basic scientists, who are trying to figure out where autism comes from and what to do about it. The topics include genetics, neurophysiologic observations, brain chemistry, positron emission, and memory function." -- SciTech Book News
"Anyone doing research in autism or other developmental disorders will find this an invaluable book to read to make sure all areas are understood and to serve as a rich source of references." -- American Journal of Psychiatry
"An excellent portal to the vast area of autism research." -- Wim E. Crusio, Genes, Brain and Behavior
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Anyone doing research in autism or other developmental disorders will find this an invaluable book to read to make sure all areas are understood and to serve as a rich source of references.
(American Journal of Psychiatry ) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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invaluble for understanding the true cause of autism,
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This review is from: The Neurobiology of Autism (The Johns Hopkins Series in Psychiatry and Neuroscience) (Hardcover)
no annecdotal nonsense here. Dr Bauman a Harvard neurologist who has studied the brains of those with autism for years. Her voluminous research dispels the causal myths of autism. Her evidence shows that the assault to the primitive brain affecting the limbic system and cerebellum manifesting as autism happens prenatally.
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A futile approach,
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This review is from: The Neurobiology of Autism (The Johns Hopkins Series in Psychiatry and Neuroscience) (Hardcover)
An elusive and complex disorder is how autism is presented in this book. That's absolutely right, but I don't think this book even begins to give a clue as to the nature of autism. I think the approach has a lot to be desired: We have to assume that the nervous system evolved in order to gratify basic drives. In higher animals, basic drives are refined into complex emotions. So, what do the neurobiologists say? According to them, autism is a neurobiological problem, but not an emotional one! That's worse than just getting things bass-ackwards. It's being stubbornly reductionist and deliberately obtuse.
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- Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (Cambridge Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) by Fred R. Volkmar on page 156, page 163, and page 266
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