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| What are the clinical features of autism? |
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1. impaired reciprocal social interactions.
2. impaired language/communication
3. restricted, repetitive, stereotyped behaviors |
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| What is the hallmark feature of autism? |
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| impaired language/communication |
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| What are the social deficits? |
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1. impaired eye gaze
2. lack of social reciprocity
3. port or absent joint attention
4. limited or absent peer relationships |
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| What are the communication deficits? |
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1. no language/impaired
2. echolalia.stereotyped speech
3. prosody
4. difficultes with irony/jokes
5. diff. with nonverbal communications
6. lack of appropriate imag. play |
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| repeat what someone else says. |
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| abnormal pitch, stress, rhythm, intonation of speech |
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| What behavioral abnormalities are associated? |
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| 1. abn preoocupations, 2. diff w/ changes, 3. stereotyped mannerisms, 4. persistant preoccupation with parts of objects rather than the whole car |
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| are males or females more affected? |
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| is there a genetic component? |
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| Is there an intrauterine component? |
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| AUT--Normal motor, AS: poor coordination |
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AUT: language impairment
AS: Normal langu |
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AUT: social blindness,
AS: social myopia |
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| In terms of the Autistic ven diagram, where is AS? |
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Definition
| have all 3: langue structure; stereoytped behaviors and restricted interests, and social interaction and communication difficulties |
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| In terms of the Autistic ven diagram, where AS? |
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Definition
| stereotyped behavior, difficulties with social interactions |
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| In terms of the Autistic ven diagram, where specific language impairment? |
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Definition
| diff with language structure |
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| What is the prognosis of AUT determined by? |
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Definition
| the prescence of communicative speech and by overall cog. ability |
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| @ What are Tx/interventions aimed? |
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Definition
| promoting independence, self-help skills, reduce morbidity (aggression, self-mutilation, anxiety) |
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| What neurocog deficits do people with autism have? |
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Definition
1. global executive fuction deficits
2. weak central coherence
3. theory of mind deficits |
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| name some executive functions |
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Definition
| ability to maintain a problem solving mindset, forward planning, organizational skills. |
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| Where do executive functions localize to? |
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| Are executive functions specific to aut? |
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| What is weak central coherence? |
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Definition
| difficulty integrating info in meaningful wholes; fragmented learning style |
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Term
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Definition
| understanding that people have minds and mental states, and that mental states related to behavior. TOM enables children to represent to themselves the mental states (representations) of others, and to use that to preict their behavior |
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| What is a false beliefs task? |
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Definition
| it is a measure of TOM in which a child is exprected to predict how a person would respond on the hasis of a false or incorrect info. |
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| What are some neurobiological clinical correlates? |
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Definition
| Seizure, cognitive deficits, high peripheral serotonin concentration (serotonin disregulation) |
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| What are major neurological findings? |
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Definition
| Increased brain size, reduced arborisation in amydula, hippocampus, septum, anterior cerebellum |
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| What are the findings of the Yale Group's neuroimaging studies? |
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Definition
| Subjects with AUT were using "object recognition" for processing faces and emotional information |
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| How can psychiatrists get involved with PTS w/ AUT? |
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Definition
| By decreasing related symptoms (aggression, etc) and medication working to reduceL self-injury, aggression, overactivity, sterotyped movements |
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