19 New Behavioral, Other Autism Related Abstracts

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Tuesday, March 18, 2003

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NEW BEHAVIORAL, OTHER RESEARCH

19 Autism Related Abstracts – contains technical language.

* How well does early diagnosis of autism stand the test of time?

Follow-up study of children assessed for autism at age 2 and development of

an early diagnostic service.

* Ability profiles in children with autism: influence of age and IQ.

* The development and maintenance of friendship in high-functioning

children with autism: maternal perceptions.

* Psychosocial functioning in a group of Swedish adults with Asperger

syndrome or high-functioning autism.

* Understanding autism: insights from mind and brain.

* A retrospective analysis of the clinical case records of 'autistic

psychopaths' diagnosed by Hans Asperger and his team at the University

Children's Hospital, Vienna.

* Identifying neurocognitive phenotypes in autism.

* Why is joint attention a pivotal skill in autism?

* Does the perception of moving eyes trigger reflexive visual orienting

in autism?

* The pathogenesis of autism: insights from congenital blindness.

* The enactive mind, or from actions to cognition: lessons from autism.

* The systemizing quotient: an investigation of adults with Asperger

syndrome or high-functioning autism, and normal sex differences.

* Towards an understanding of the mechanisms of weak central coherence

effects: experiments in visual configural learning and auditory perception.

* Disentangling weak coherence and executive dysfunction: planning

drawing in autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

* The reach-to-grasp movement in children with autism spectrum disorder.

* Investigating individual differences in brain abnormalities in autism.

* The role of the fusiform face area in social cognition: implications

for the pathobiology of autism.

* Cognitive evoked potentials in autistic children.

* Joint attention training for children with autism using behavior

modification procedures.

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