Autism
Subtitle: an integrated view from neurocognitive, clinical, and intervention research
By: edited by Evelyn McGregor ... [et al.].
Contributors: McGregor, Evelyn.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405156950; 9781405156967
Subjects: Autism; Autistic Disorder -- psychology; Autistic Disorder -- diagnosis; Autistic Disorder -- rehabilitation; Brain -- physiopathology; Models, Theoretical
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Seeking coherence in autism : from fMRI to intervention / Evelyn McGregor ... [et al.]; title: New insights from neuroimaging into the emotional brain in autism / Bruno Wicker; title: Directedness, egocentrism, and autism / Justin H.G. Williams; title: Altered salience in autism : developmental insights, consequences and questions / Warren Jones and Ami Klin; title: Abnormalities in "cultural knowledge" in autism spectrum disorders : a link between behaviour and cognition / Eva Loth; title: Building the whole beyond its parts : a critical examination of current theories of integration ability in autism / Beatriz López; title: The influence of conceptual knowledge on perceptual processing in autism / Danielle Ropar, Peter Mitchell, and Elizabeth Sheppard; title: Executive functioning in autism spectrum disorder : where it fits in the causal model / Elisabeth L. Hill; title: How young children with autism treat objects and people : some insights on autism in infancy from research on home-movies / Sandra Maestro and Filippo Muratori; title: Screening for autism spectrum disorders in primary school aged children / Jo G. Williams; title: The prosody-language relationship in children with high-functioning autism / Joanne McCann ... [et al.]; title: Teaching adults with autism spectrum conditions to recognise emotions : systematic training for empathising difficulties / Ofer Golan and Simon Baron-Cohen; title: Developing social interaction and understanding in high functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorder / Aline-Wendy Dunlop, Fiona Knott, and Tommy MacKay; title: Research base for intervention in autism spectrum disorders / Glenys Jones and Rita Jordan; title: Stress in parents of children with autism / Richard P. Hastings; title: Integrating neuro-cognitive, diagnostic and intervention processes in autism / Susan Leekam and Evelyn McGregor.