In autism, though the brain structure looks normal, there are functional abnormalities in specific regions of brain. This information, about the functioning of brain areas can be obtained from functional neuroimaging techniques like PET-CT scan and functional MRI scan of the brain. These imaging...
What Causes AutismWhat Causes Autism? Gut Health is Likely an Important Factor There are many theories on what causes autism. More and more research shows that autistic children have an altered composition of bacteria in the gut. Using probiotics for autism treatment might be able to fix this ...
Meltzoff, Andrew NGopnik, L. & Meltzoff, A. (2000). Early theories of mind: What the theory theory can tell us about autism. In S. Baron-Cohen et al. (Eds.) Understanding other minds: perspectives from autism and cognitive neuroscience (second edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press....
Describe the prominent theories of how language and thought interact. How does a mother tongue affect second language acquisition? What is a weakness of theory of reasoned action? In what ways are children with ASD distinguishable from children with language delays? Why might...
Other unusual parallels between prodigies and those with autism: they're both more likely to be male (though that finding may be due in part to the failure to recognize either girls on the autism spectrum or, perhaps, girls' hidden talents) and both are associated with difficult pregnancies,...
This paper argues that understanding developmental disorders requires developing theories and models that explicitly represent the role of general intelligence in the cognitive phenotype of the disorder. In the case of autism it is argued that the low-IQ scores of people with autism are not likely ...
Theories of difference can be taken one step further. American author and relationship counsellor JohnGray (1992)considers men and women to be so vastly different that they inhabit separate cosmic spaces (Kimmel, 2013: 1, 283). Men are from Mars and women are from Venus. According to Gray ...
What's really in the vaccine? Why do some people say vaccines cause autism and what is the government's response to that? All of these are valid issues but because the ad on youtube was a one-way dialogue, the government gets away with it. And do I need to mention that there is ...
Autistic children's difficulty with mental disengagement from an object: Its implications for theories of autism. Exp 1 demonstrated that autistic Ss continue to fail a task originally designed as one of strategic deception when there is no opponent present: They perse... C Hughes,J Russell - ...
There are many theories as to why people select certain things or why they have varying levels of selective attention. Some believe that the memory or the working attentional state can only hold so much at a time; so people filter out what they deem unnecessary or unimportant, usually without...