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Bowling Champ Says Asperger's Helps ConcentrationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Women's college bowling MVP says she practices up to 15 hours a week. Bowling - Sport - Organizations - Ten-Pin - United States (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bowling Champ Says Asperger's HelpsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Women's college bowling MVP says she practices up to 15 hours a week. Bowling - Sport - Organizations - Ten-Pin - United States (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

David Cameron Responds To UKAF's Call On Public ServicesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron, has responded to the call of the charity the UK Autism Foundation urging him to protect the vulnerable from the 'savage cuts' to public services. Ivan Corea CEO of the UK Autism Foundation had written to Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg urging the three political leaders to shield parents, carers, children and adults with autism and Asperger's Syndrome from the cuts to public services. (Source: Autism News From Medical News Today)
Source: Autism News From Medical News Today - November 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Autism Source Type: news

A Comprehensive Profile of Decoding and Comprehension in Autism Spectrum Disorders.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study examined intake data from 384 participants with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and a comparison group of 100 participants with dyslexia on nine standardized measures of decoding and comprehension. Although diagnostic groups were based on parental reports and could not be verified independently, we were able to observe significant distinctions between subject groups. Overall findings confirm previous results of a disassociation between decoding and comprehension in ASD. Using a larger sample than previous studies and a greater variety of measures, a pattern of relatively intact decoding skills paired ...
Source: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - November 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Huemer SV, Mann V Tags: J Autism Dev Disord Source Type: journals

Language Support In Schools Vital For Children With AutismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Teachers and parents must be vigilant in observing difficulties with language comprehension, reading and spelling in children and young people with autism, Asperger's syndrome and ADHD. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - November 12, 2009 Category: Science Source Type: news

Neurofeedback Outcomes in Clients with Asperger's Syndrome.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper summarizes data from a review of neurofeedback (NFB) training with 150 clients with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) and 9 clients with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) seen over a 15 year period (1993-2008) in a clinical setting. The main objective was to investigate whether electroncephalographic (EEG) biofeedback, also called neurofeedback (NFB), made a significant difference in clients diagnosed with AS. An earlier paper (Thompson et al. 2009) reviews the symptoms of AS, highlights research findings and theories concerning this disorder, discusses QEEG patterns in AS (both single and 19-channel), and details a h...
Source: Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback - November 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Thompson L, Thompson M, Reid A Tags: Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback Source Type: journals

Language support key to kids with autismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Students with autism or Asperger's syndrome often have problems with reading comprehension, writing and spelling, researchers in Sweden said. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Importance Of Language Support For Children With AutismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Teachers and parents must be vigilant in observing difficulties with language comprehension, reading and spelling in children and young people with autism, Asperger's syndrome and ADHD. "It is important that pupils are offered the support to which they are entitled", says Jakob Ã�sberg in a new thesis at the University of Gothenburg. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 10, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Autism Source Type: news

The Importance Of Language Support For Children With AutismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Teachers and parents must be vigilant in observing difficulties with language comprehension, reading and spelling in children and young people with autism, Asperger's syndrome and ADHD. "It is important that pupils are offered the support to which they are entitled", says Jakob Asberg in a new thesis at the University of Gothenburg. "Pupils with these neuropsychiatric disorders are often reported as having problems with spoken and written activities. (Source: ADHD News From Medical News Today)
Source: ADHD News From Medical News Today - November 10, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Autism Source Type: news

Language support in schools vital for children with autismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(University of Gothenburg) Teachers and parents must be vigilant in observing difficulties with language comprehension, reading and spelling in children and young people with autism, Asperger's syndrome and ADHD. "It is important that pupils are offered the support to which they are entitled", says Jakob Åsberg in a new thesis at the University of Gothenburg. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 9, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

What Is The Value Of A Life?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I was once told that I shouldn't have kids, because the child could be born with Asperger's, like me. I answered with a question - "Would you have given the same advice to my parents?""Well," came the answer, "look at all the difficulties you've had, and the pain you've had to endure...surely you wouldn't wish that on a child." Well, it's true that living my life with Asperger's has often been difficult. Yes, I have dealt with my fair share of pain and rejection... In a perfect world I wouldn't want a child to go through the same issues. But I also had to wonder...is life just about avoiding p...
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lynne Soraya Tags: Autism Child Development Cognition Creativity Gender Happiness Health Memory Morality Neuroscience Parenting Personality Relationships Resilience Self-Help Social Life Spirituality Stress abstract concept Asperger syn Source Type: consumer

Clinical and anatomical heterogeneity in autistic spectrum disorder: a structural MRI study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Adults with ASD have significant differences from controls in the anatomy of brain regions implicated in behaviours characterizing the disorder, and this differs according to clinical subtype. PMID: 19891805 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Psychological Medicine)
Source: Psychological Medicine - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Toal F, Daly EM, Page L, Deeley Q, Hallahan B, Bloemen O, Cutter WJ, Brammer MJ, Curran S, Robertson D, Murphy C, Murphy KC, Murphy DG Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: journals

4,000 Percent Increase in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Sobering Statistic or Sensational Twist?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This week a headline snagged my attention in Google news proclaiming Bipolar Disorder Increases 4,000 Percent in Children and Adolescents. The article is Lynette Fleming's review of the book The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World by Anthony Rao and Michelle Seaton. The basic premise of the book is that "as a culture, we are increasingly failing to respect young boyhood, pathologizing normal boy behavior and foisting burdensome and stigmatizing diagnoses of ADHD, Asperger's syndrome, bipolar disorder, and more on boys as young as three years old." I haven't read the book, though it is now ...
Source: About.com Bipolar Disorder - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: consumer

Psychiatrists debate Asperger's labelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Some medical authorities are proposing to take Asperger's syndrome out of the next edition of psychiatry's diagnostic manual. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - November 4, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

A comprehensive volumetric analysis of the cerebellum in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorderEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and postmortem neuropathological studies have implicated the cerebellum in the pathophysiology of autism. Controversy remains, however, concerning the nature and the consistency of cerebellar alterations. MRI studies of the cross-sectional area of the vermis have found both decreases and no difference in autism groups. Volumetric analysis of the vermis, which is less prone to "plane of section artifacts" may provide a more reliable assessment of size differences but few such studies exist in the literature. Here we present the results of a volumetric analysis of the structure of the whole c...
Source: Autism Research - November 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Julia A. Scott, Cynthia Mills Schumann, Beth L. Goodlin-Jones, David G. Amaral Source Type: journals

A Powerful Identity, a Vanishing DiagnosisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Experts want to remove an autism label from a diagnostic manual, but people with the disorder are divided. (Source: NYT > Health)
Source: NYT > Health - November 2, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By CLAUDIA WALLIS Tags: Asperger's Syndrome Autism Medicine and Health Source Type: news

Perception of basic emotions from speech prosody in adolescents with Asperger's syndrome.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study focuses on how adolescents with AS (n=12) and their typically developed controls (n=15) recognize the basic emotions happy, sad, angry, and 'neutral' from speech prosody. Adolescents with AS recognized basic emotions from speech prosody as well as their typically developed controls did. Possibly the recognition of basic emotions develops during the childhood. PMID: 19883170 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology.)
Source: Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology. - November 2, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Heikkinen J, Jansson-Verkasalo E, Toivanen J, Suominen K, Väyrynen E, Moilanen I, Seppänen T Tags: Logoped Phoniatr Vocol Source Type: journals

Living with Asperger's syndromeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Tim Page, author of "Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's," will discuss the effects of Asperger's syndrome on his life and coping mechanisms he uses to treat it. (Source: Wash Post Health)
Source: Wash Post Health - October 27, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tim Page Tags: Living with Asperger's syndrome Source Type: news

Living with asperger syndromeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Tim Page, author of "Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's," will discuss the affects of asperger syndrome on his life and coping mechanisms he uses to treat it. (Source: Wash Post Health)
Source: Wash Post Health - October 27, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tim Page Tags: Living with Asperger syndrome Source Type: news

Stimulus Characteristics Affect Humor Processing in Individuals with Asperger Syndrome.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present paper aims to investigate whether individuals with Asperger syndrome (AS) show global humor processing deficits or whether humor comprehension and appreciation depends on stimulus characteristics. Non-verbal visual puns, semantic and Theory of Mind cartoons were rated on comprehension, funniness and the punchlines were explained. AS individuals did not differ to the control group in humor appreciation of visual puns. However, they had difficulty understanding and appreciating Theory of Mind cartoons and provided mentalistic explanations less frequently than controls suggesting that humor processing is stron...
Source: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - October 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Samson AC, Hegenloh M Tags: J Autism Dev Disord Source Type: journals

Just Listen - Maybe He's Just Not That Into AnyoneEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Jason Calacanis: "So are hard driving founders narcissists?" Dr. Mark Goulston: "If anything they're more like people with features of Asperger's Syndrome." - from "This Week in Startups" and Twist episode 21 Both narcissists and high functioning people with Asperger like features are goal minded to a fault, and both can view other people more as functions or vehicles to achieve that goal instead of as people with feelings. However a critical difference between the two is that a narcissist doesn't care if they hurt you or your feelings (and the truly malignant ones may even take delight in doing so), whereas someone with A...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - October 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr. Mark Goulston Tags: Relationships Asperger ' s syndrome critical difference dr mark feelings founders friends family intention jason calacanis listening skills mark goulston narcissism narcissist observable behavior startups Source Type: consumer

Perspectives: Asperger's and EmpathyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Some time ago, in my post Empathy, Mindblindness and Theory of Mind, I wrote about Asperger's and empathy. In a new feature, here on the Asperger's Diary blog, I thought I'd share another Aspergian perspective on this hot button topic. This video was created by Bev at Asperger Square 8. Being a visual thinker myself, I really enjoy how she is able to convey her point simply, clearly and visually - with only a few words (and a little whimsy thrown in). What do you think about what she has to say?From time to time I'll be featuring videos, profiles and stories highlighting diff...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lynne Soraya Tags: Autism Cognition Happiness Morality Neuroscience Personality Social Life Asperger ' autism spectrum diary different perspectives e mail empathy few words hot button nbsp new feature profiles theory of mind visual th Source Type: consumer

Just Listen - It's Enough to Make a Grown Man CryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I like to consider myself a fairly empathic guy, but on a recent appearance on "This Week in Startups" I told Jason Calacanis that I am viewing people more as modems than as human beings. Nearly everyone who is connected to the Internet is connected through a modem and everyone who uses a modem has had on multiple occasions had to unplug it, power down, unbundle it, rest it, power up, reconnect and then reboot it. That occurs when the modem is filled beyond its capacity to receive and transfer information between your computer and the Internet. And when your modem is overloaded, there is no other alternative than to follow...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - October 20, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr. Mark Goulston Tags: Relationships accumulation actuality appearance artificial intelligence board of directors communication emotional charge emotional intelligence euphemism executive team health care providers human beings jason calacanis listen Source Type: consumer

Immune allergic response in Asperger syndromeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract: Asperger's syndrome is a subgroup of autism characterized by social deficits without language delay, and high cognitive performance. The biological nature of autism is still unknown but there are controversial evidence associating an immune imbalance and autism. Clinical findings, including atopic family history, serum IgE levels as well as cutaneous tests showed that incidence of atopy was higher in the Asperger group compared to the healthy controls. These findings suggest that atopy is frequent in this subgroup of autism implying that allergic inflammation might be an important feature in Asperger syndrome. (S...
Source: Journal of Neuroimmunology - October 19, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Elizabeth S. Magalhães, Fernanda Pinto-Mariz, Sandra Bastos-Pinto, Adailton T. Pontes, Evandro A. Prado, Leonardo C. deAzevedo Tags: Clinical Neuroimmunology Source Type: journals

Assistive Software Workshop (2009-10-21)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Each year the Disability Support Team organise the awareness week. This awareness raising week will concentrate on all specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and those conditions that arise in learning differences such as ADD/ADHD and Asperger’s Syndrome. This is one of a number of training workshops ava (Source: Institute of Psychiatry | Events)
Source: Institute of Psychiatry | Events - October 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Tags: other Source Type: organizations

Dyslexia Drop-In (2009-10-22)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Each year the Disability Support Team organise the awareness week. This awareness raising week will concentrate on all specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and those conditions that arise in learning differences such as ADD/ADHD and Asperger’s Syndrome. Drop-in: for students and staff to see someone br (Source: Institute of Psychiatry | Events)
Source: Institute of Psychiatry | Events - October 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Tags: other Source Type: organizations

Dyslexia Support - what happens and why (2009-10-23)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Each year the Disability Support Team organise the awareness week. This awareness raising week will concentrate on all specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and those conditions that arise in learning differences such as ADD/ADHD and Asperger’s Syndrome. Principles behind what happens in a dyslexia supp (Source: Institute of Psychiatry | Events)
Source: Institute of Psychiatry | Events - October 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Tags: seminar Source Type: organizations

Approaches to reading at university (2009-10-20)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Each year the Disability Support Team organise the awareness week. This awareness raising week will concentrate on all specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and those conditions that arise in learning differences such as ADD/ADHD and Asperger’s Syndrome. Workshop directed at students on how to approach (Source: Institute of Psychiatry | Events)
Source: Institute of Psychiatry | Events - October 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Tags: seminar Source Type: organizations

Academic Writing Skills (2009-10-21)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Each year the Disability Support Team organise the awareness week. This awareness raising week will concentrate on all specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and those conditions that arise in learning differences such as ADD/ADHD and Asperger’s Syndrome. Following on from the Academic Reading session on (Source: Institute of Psychiatry | Events)
Source: Institute of Psychiatry | Events - October 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Tags: seminar Source Type: organizations

Undiagnosed Asperger's Leads To 'Life As An Outsider'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
For most of his life, music critic Tim Page felt like an outsider. Restless and isolated, he was uneasy around others. Finally, when he was 45, Page was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - October 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Union and separation in the therapy of pervasive developmental disorders and ADHDEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper discusses the characteristics of psychotherapy for pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) in the context of the curative effects of the movement of images. The 'autistic spectrum' is widened here and includes not only PDD, but also ADHD. The main common characteristic in these two sets of disorders seems to be the lack of a subject, which manifests itself as the absence of awareness of otherness and difficulties with boundaries and language. In these cases a normal psychotherapy is ineffective as it presupposes an established subject. However a psychotherapeutic approach with these patients can contribute to th...
Source: Journal of Analytical Psychology - October 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Toshio Kawai Tags: ARTICLES Source Type: journals

[Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in Asperger's syndrome: correlations with neuropsychological test scores]Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
DISCUSSION: Because NAA/Cho was inversely correlated with ToM performance and Cho/Cr was correlated with ToM performance, it can be suggested that the Cho level was related to better ToM test performance in the AS group. An increase in the Cho peak was associated with an increase in membrane breakdown or turnover. The Cho peak was also thought to reflect cellular density and astrocytosis. It is suggested that membrane turnover and astrocytosis might affect cognitive functioning. PMID: 19306123 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] (Source: Turkish Journal of Psychiatry)
Source: Turkish Journal of Psychiatry - October 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Oner O, Ozgüven HD, Oktem F, Yağmurlu B, Baskak B, Olmez S, Munir K Tags: Turk Psikiyatri Derg Source Type: journals

Asperger’s syndrome and high-functioning autism: language, motor and cognitive profilesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The objective of this study is to compare the cognitive profile, the motor and language functioning and the psychosocial adaptation of children with Asperger syndrome (AS) and with high-functioning autism (HFA). Subjects were recruited through the department Autism and Developmental Disorders of the Heckscher-Klinikum. To be included in the study, the full-scale-IQ had to be at least 80. Subjects with AS had to have a normal early language development and subjects with HFA a clear delay in language development, as reported by their parents. The sample consisted of 57 children with Asperger syndrome and 55 children with...
Source: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - October 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Tags: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Source Type: journals

ARTICLE: Characteristics and Concordance of Autism Spectrum Disorders Among 277 Twin PairsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Our data support greater ASD concordance in MZ vs DZ twins. Overall higher functioning, psychiatric comorbidity, and Asperger syndrome concordance among affected MZ vs DZ twins may also suggest differential heritability for different ASDs. For families in which one MZ twin is diagnosed with ASD, the second twin is unlikely to receive an ASD diagnosis after 12 months. In addition, Internet parent report of ASD status is valid. (Source: Archives of Pediatrics)
Source: Archives of Pediatrics - October 5, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Rosenberg, R. E., Law, J. K., Yenokyan, G., McGready, J., Kaufmann, W. E., Law, P. A. Tags: Pediatrics, Child Development, Psychiatry, Autism, Child Psychiatry, Genetics, Genetic Disorders Article Source Type: journals

Characteristics and Concordance of Autism Spectrum Disorders Among 277 Twin Pairs [Article]Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Our data support greater ASD concordance in MZ vs DZ twins. Overall higher functioning, psychiatric comorbidity, and Asperger syndrome concordance among affected MZ vs DZ twins may also suggest differential heritability for different ASDs. For families in which one MZ twin is diagnosed with ASD, the second twin is unlikely to receive an ASD diagnosis after 12 months. In addition, Internet parent report of ASD status is valid. (Source: Archives of Pediatrics)
Source: Archives of Pediatrics - October 5, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Rosenberg, R. E., Law, J. K., Yenokyan, G., McGready, J., Kaufmann, W. E., Law, P. A. Tags: Pediatrics, Child Development, Psychiatry, Autism, Child Psychiatry, Genetics, Genetic Disorders Article Source Type: journals

Lessons from GandhiEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As PT blogger Michael J. Formica noted, today is the 140th anniversary of the birth of Mohandas K. Gandhi. In honor of the event, I thought I'd share a post I wrote a few years ago about how the Mahatma inspired me to accept some of my limitations: namely, my troubles with speech. From the time I was young, one of my biggest sources of shame has been my difficulty at times with verbal communications. While at some times, words come easily (and sometimes ceaselessly, as others have told me), other times my brain simply stops. I know what I want to say, but am unable to get my mouth to for...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lynne Soraya Tags: Autism Child Development Cognition Happiness Neuroscience Personality Philosophy Resilience Self-Help Spirituality acceptance Asperger ' autism spectrum birthday disabilities extreme shyness Heroes inspiration languag Source Type: consumer

Autism spectrum disorders in young children: effect of changes in diagnostic practicesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions The rise in incidence of all types of ASDs by year of diagnosis appears to be related to changes in diagnostic and service provision practices in WA. In children aged ≤5 years, diagnosis of severe ID decreased, but mild–moderate ID increased during the study period. A true increase in ASD cannot be ruled out. (Source: International Journal of Epidemiology)
Source: International Journal of Epidemiology - October 1, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Nassar, N., Dixon, G., Bourke, J., Bower, C., Glasson, E., de Klerk, N., Leonard, H. Tags: Special Theme: Autism Source Type: journals

Neurobehavioral Disorders of Childhood (Melillo et al.)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An Evolutionary Perspective Attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, asperger's syndrome, and autism, to name but a few, may be viewed as points on a spectrum of developmental disabilities in which those points share features in common and possibly etiology as well, varying only in severity and in the primary ... (Source: Springer Biomedical Sciences titles)
Source: Springer Biomedical Sciences titles - October 1, 2009 Category: Biomedical Science Tags: Neurosciences Source Type: organizations

Seeing Through New Eyes: Changing the Lives of Children with Autism, Asperger Syndrome and Other Developmental Disabilities Through Vision TherapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers estimate that now 1 in 150 children has a pervasive developmental disorder, up from 1 in 10,000 a generation ago. Many autistic behaviors are visual: poor eye contact, staring at lights or spinning objects, side viewing, or flicking fingers in front of the eyes. No wonder parents are seeking optometric opinions with increasing frequency. (Source: Optometry - Journal of the American Optometric Association)
Source: Optometry - Journal of the American Optometric Association - September 30, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Patricia S. Lemer Tags: Book Notes Source Type: journals

Bullying, Hypocrisy, and Church: An Asperger Perspective on ReligionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In his most recent post, John Elder Robison asks why many people on the spectrum reject religion. Personally, my relationship with religion has always been highly complex. As I wrote previously, when I was young, my challenges drove me to try to understand things, especially things relating to people. So, I set out to study the human condition. What makes human beings tick? What were the rules for living successfully as a human being? Where do you go to get those answers? I turned to psychology and religion. The way I saw it, psychology was a means of understanding the individual a...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lynne Soraya Tags: Anxiety Autism Child Development Creativity Happiness Memory Neuroscience Personality Psychiatry Relationships Resilience Self-Help Social Life Spirituality Therapy Asperger syndrome ' s disorder s syndrome autism spe Source Type: consumer

'A real shock'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A man with Asperger's on meeting his father (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - September 29, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Autism and society's definition of 'normal'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Denis Campbell's piece (Shortcuts, G2, 24 September) highlighting that 1 in 100 adults has autism shows that it is surely time to stop calling autism, ADHD, Asperger's syndrome etc "disorders" and, worse still, "mental illness", as frequently happens in the media.There is a theory that there are so many people diagnosed with autistic spectrum "disorders" because these are all just different variations in the way the brain works, which have not been eradicated by natural selection because they are needed in society. Just as much as we need the stable, steady people to keep things running, we also need the sudden, inspiratio...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 28, 2009 Category: Science Tags: Autism Mental health Society Life and style & wellbeing The Guardian Letters Source Type: news

Is the Bible obsolete?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In medieval times, people managed by decree and threat. The King made a proclamation, and said, "Fear this, and tremblingly obey!" You ignored the King and his nobles at your peril, as most anything could be a capital offense. Stealing a loaf of bread, or murdering your neighbor - either could send you to the gallows. In a world like that, the bible's threats and dogma seemed right in line with the way of the world. Today, things are different. Managers manage by motivation. Instead of saying, "Do this or we will have you executed," they think of ways to make people want to do things. Bosses talk endlessly about self-motiv...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John Elder Robison Tags: Autism Child Development Personality Philosophy Spirituality aspies for freedom boston university brainwashing capital offense Catholicism church dichotomy gallows God godliness higher plane last winter loaf of bread me Source Type: consumer

Autism Spectrum Disorders (Pervasive Developmental Disorders) - The DiagnosisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), also known as Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDDs), cause severe and pervasive impairment in thinking, feeling, language, and the ability to relate to others. These disorders are usually first diagnosed in early childhood and range from a severe form, called autistic disorder, through pervasive development disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), to a much milder form, Asperger syndrome. They also include two rare disorders, Rett syndrome and childhood disintegrative disorder. (Source: About.com Mental Health)
Source: About.com Mental Health - September 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Tags: health Source Type: consumer

Evidence for the involvement of genetic variation in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) in the etiology of autistic disorders on high-functioning levelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion, our results implicate that genetic variation in the OXTR gene might be relevant in the etiology of autism on high-functioning level. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. (Source: American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics)
Source: American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics - September 22, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Anne-Kathrin Wermter, Inge Kamp-Becker, Philipp Hesse, Gerd Schulte-Körne, Konstantin Strauch, Helmut Remschmidt Source Type: journals

Intensive program helps prepare Asperger's, autistic students for collegeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
September 12, 2009 Sep. 12--Most parents dream of sending their kids off to college someday. But for parents of children with autism, even high-achieving kids with Asperger's syndrome, college often seems like the impossible dream. (Source: PsycPORT.com)
Source: PsycPORT.com - September 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Authors: developer at apa.org Source Type: news

Auditory stream segregation in children with Asperger syndrome.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Individuals with Asperger syndrome (AS) often have difficulties in perceiving speech in noisy environments. The present study investigated whether this might be explained by deficient auditory stream segregation ability, that is, by a more basic difficulty in separating simultaneous sound sources from each other. To this end, auditory event-related brain potentials were recorded from a group of school-aged children with AS and a group of age-matched controls using a paradigm specifically developed for studying stream segregation. Differences in the amplitudes of ERP components were found between groups only in the stre...
Source: Biological Psychology - September 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lepistö T, Kuitunen A, Sussman E, Saalasti S, Jansson-Verkasalo E, Wendt TN, Kujala T Tags: Biol Psychol Source Type: journals

Theory of Mind in Adults with HFA and Asperger Syndrome.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Theory of mind was assessed in 32 adults with HFA, 29 adults with Asperger syndrome and 32 neurotypical adults. The HFA and Asperger syndrome groups were impaired in performance of the Strange stories test and the Faux-pas test and reported more theory of mind problems than the neurotypical adults. The three groups did not differ in performance of the Eyes test. Furthermore, correlations between the Eyes test and the three other theory of mind tests were low or absent. Therefore one can question the ability of the Eyes test to measure theory of mind. Of all theory of mind tests used, the self-report questionnaire had t...
Source: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - September 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Spek AA, Scholte EM, Van Berckelaer-Onnes IA Tags: J Autism Dev Disord Source Type: journals

Investigation of Mentalizing and Visuospatial Perspective Taking for Self and Other in Asperger Syndrome.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mentalizing refers to making inferences about other people's mental states, whereas visuospatial perspective taking refers to inferring other people's viewpoints. Both abilities seem vital for social functioning; yet, their exact relationship is unclear. We directly compared mentalizing and visuospatial perspective taking in nineteen adults with Asperger syndrome (AS) and fifteen control participants with the same stimulus material. Stimuli depicted virtual characters surrounded by two different objects. Virtual characters expressed a preference for one of the objects indicated by facial expression, gestures or head/bo...
Source: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - September 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Authors: David N, Aumann C, Bewernick BH, Santos NS, Lehnhardt FG, Vogeley K Tags: J Autism Dev Disord Source Type: journals

Language assessment in subjects with Asperger SyndromeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
OBJETIVO: avaliar e caracterizar provas fonoaudiológicas de linguagem oral e escrita de sujeitos com Síndrome de Asperger comparativamente a um grupo de sujeitos com desenvolvimento típico. MÉTODOS: avaliou-se 44 sujeitos que constituíram dois grupos: o grupo Asperger, composto por 22 sujeitos diagnosticados por equipe multidisciplinar como portadores de Síndrome de Asperger, conforme os critérios do DSM-IV; e o grupo de comparação, denominado grupo de baixo risco para alterações do desenvolvimento, também com 22 participantes, pareados com os sujeitos do grupo Asperger segundo a idade cronológica. Todos os su...
Source: Revista CEFAC - September 5, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals