Autism: The Science of Mental Health

by Hyman,Steven E.

• ISBN13: 9780815337454
• ISBN10: 0815337450
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Overview
An 8-Year-Old Boy with Autism	1	(10)
I. Rapin
Description
The Screening and Diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorders	11	(46)
P. A. Filipek
P. J. Accardo
G. T. Baranek
E. H. Cook Jr.
G. Dawson
B. Gordon
J. S. Gravel
C. P. Johnson
R. J. Kallen
S. E. Levy
N. J. Minshew
S. Ozonoff
B. M. Prizant
I. Rapin
S. J. Rogers
W. L. Stone
S. Teplin
R. F. Tuchman
F. R. Volkmar
Epidemiology
Epidemiology of Autism: Prevalence, Associated Characteristics, and Implications for Research and Service Delivery	57	(8)
W. E. Bryson
I. M. Smith
The Epidemiology of Autism: A Review	65	(18)
E. Fombonne
Autistic and Dysphasic Children, II Epilepsy	83	(8)
R. F. Tuchman
I. Rapin
S. Shinnar
Genetics
Autism as a Strongly Genetic Disorder: Evidence from a British Twin Study	91	(16)
A. Bailey
A. Le Couteur
I. Gottesman
P. Bolton
E. Simonoff
E. Yuzda
M. Rutter
Genetics of Autism: Characteristics of Affected and Unaffected Children from 37 Multiplex Families	107	(9)
D. Spiker
L. Lotspich
H. C. Kraemer
Evidence Supporting WNT2 as an Autism Susceptibility Gene	116	(7)
T. H. Wassink
J. Piven
V. J. Vieland
J. Huang
R. E. Swiderski
J. Pietila
T. Braun
G. Beck
S. E. Folstein
J. L. Haines
V. C. Sheffield
Neurobiology of Disease
The Neuroanatomy of Autism: A Voxel-Based Whole Brain Analysis of Structural Scans	123	(3)
F. Abell
M. Krams
J. Ashburner
R. Passingham
K. Friston
Abnormal Processing of Social Information from Faces in Autism	126	(10)
R. Adolphs
L. Sears
J. Piven
The Human Amygdala in Social Judgment	136	(5)
R. Adolphs
D. Tranel
A. R. Damasio
A Clinicopathological Study of Autism	141	(18)
A. Bailey
P. Luthbert
A. Dean
B. Harding
I. Janota
M. Montgomery
M. Rutter
P. Lantos
Autism: Towards an Integration of Clinical, Genetic, Neuropsychological, and Neurobiological Perspectives	159	(38)
A. Bailey
W. Phillips
M. Rutter
Hypoplasia of Cerebellar Vermal Lobules VI and VII in Autism	197	(6)
E. Courchesne
R. Yeung-Courchesne
G. A. Press
J. R. Hesselink
T. L. Jernigan
``Theory of Mind'' in the Brain: Evidence from a PET Scan Study of Asperger Syndrome	203	(6)
F. Happe
S. Ehlers
P. Fletcher
U. Frith
M. Johansson
C. Gillberg
R. Dolan
R. Frackowiak
C. Frith
Neuropathology of Infantile Autism	209	(8)
T. L. Kemper
M. Bauman
Autism Spectrum Disorders	217	(9)
C. Lord
E. H. Cook
B. L. Leventhal
D. G. Amaral
Frontal Lobe Contributions to Theory of Mind	226	(17)
V. E. Stone
S. Baron-Cohen
R. T. Knight
Treatment
A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Risperidone in Adults with Autistic Disorder and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders	243	(10)
C. J. McDougle
J. P. Holmes
D. C. Carlson
Long-Term Outcome for Children with Autism Who Received Early Intensive Behavioral Treatment	253	(15)
J. J. McEachern
T. Smith
O. I. Lovaas
Empirically Supported Comprehensive Treatment of Young Children with Autism	268	(13)
S. J. Rogers
Acknowledgments	281