Rethinking Autism: Variation and Complexity - Rilegato

Waterhouse, Lynn

 
9780124159617: Rethinking Autism: Variation and Complexity
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ISBN 10: 0124159613 ISBN 13: 9780124159617
Casa editrice: Academic Pr, 2012

Sinossi

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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Informazioni sull'autore

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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Editore
Academic Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0124159613
ISBN 13 
9780124159617
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
464
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Persona responsabile
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