The Neuroscience of Autism

The multidimensional manifestation of autism spectrum disorders has long been intriguing to researchers. The Neuroscience of Autism provides a comprehensive account of autism spectrum disorders by integrating scientific findings from behavioral, cognitive, and neurobiological research. The book begins by defining autism, identifying characteristics, prevalence, and exploring the history, then moves on to the cognitive and social bases of the behavioural symptoms, then to brain bases of behavioural and cognitive symptoms, and ends with intervention practices.

The Neuroscience of Autism examines theoretical models such as weak central coherence, enhanced perceptual functioning, and the extreme male brain hypothesis. It also addresses the increased attention on the brain connectivity model of autism, looking at the synchronization of brain activity across different brain areas, causal influence of a brain region on another, and the white matter cable connections in the brain.