Autism: The Science of Mental Health

ISBN-13: 9780815337454 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 296 str.

Steven E. Hyman;Steven E. Hyman

Opis

The Science of Mental Health is a one-stop resource for major issues and classic controversies in mental health. To create this collection, a leading expert in the field has reviewed thousands of articles in hundreds of scientific journals. The result is an authoritative selection that represents the most significant research worldwide and provides a balanced perspective on the field.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: Overview; 1: An 8-Year-Old Boy with Autism; 2: Description; 2: The Screening and Diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorders 1; 3: Epidemiology; 3: Epidemiology of Autism; 4: The epidemiology of autism: a review; 5: Autistic and Dysphasic Children. II: Epilepsy; Part IV: Genetics; 6: Autism as a strongly genetic disorder: evidence from a British twin study; 7: Genetics of Autism: Characteristics of Affected and Unaffected Children from 37 Multiplex Families; 8: Rapid Publication: Evidence Supporting WNT2 as an Autism Susceptibility Gene; Part V: Neurobiology of Disease; 9: The neuroanatomy of autism: a voxel-based whole brain analysis of structural scans; 10: Abnormal Processing of Social Information from Faces in Autism; 11: The human amygdala in social judgment; 12: A clinicopathological study of autism; 13: Autism: Towards an Integration of Clinical, Genetic, Neuropsychological, and Neurobiological Perspectives; 14: Hypoplasia of Cerebellar Vermal Lobules VI and VII in Autism; 15: ‘Theory of mind' in the brain. Evidence from a PET scan study of Asperger syndrome; 16: Neuropathology of Infantile Autism; 17: Autism Spectrum Disorders; 18: Frontal Lobe Contributions to Theory of Mind; Part VI: Treatment; 19: A Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Risperidone in Adults With Autistic Disorder and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders; 20: Long-Term Outcome for Children With Autism Who Received Early Intensive Behavioral Treatment; 21: Empirically Supported Comprehensive Treatments for Young Children With Autism

O autorze

Steven Hyman, National Institute of Mental Health