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Spectrum's guide to autism 2020

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This volume aims to be the ultimate primer, drawing articles from the ever-expanding ‘Autism 101’ section of our website. Chapters on basic facts, competing theories, and tests, traits and interventions chart the landscape of the condition and help readers navigate important questions such as the role of environmental risk, the link between parental age and autism and what can be learned from genetic testing.

Author(s): Kristin Ozelli; Rebecca Horne; Hope Vanderberg; Ingrid Wickelgren; Nicholette Zeliadt; Angie Voyles Askham; Laura Dattaro; Peter Hess; Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky; Chelsey B. Coombs; Ashfia Alam
Publisher: Spectrum
Year: 2020

Language: English
Pages: 170
City: New York City

6 JUST THE FACTS
8 The evolution of ‘autism’ as a diagnosis
18 Autism prevalence in the United States
28 Autism’s sex ratio
34 Autism genetics 40 Environmental risk for autism
48 The link between parental age and autism
54 The link between antidepressants and autism
60 COMPETING THEORIES
62 The signaling imbalance theory
68 The multiple hits theory of autism
72 The connectivity theory of autism
78 The female protective effect
86 The extreme male brain
104 TESTS, TRAITS AND INTERVENTIONS
106 Autism diagnosis
112 Clinical genetics
118 Early interventions
126 Conditions that accompany autism
132 Social communication in autism
138 Sleep problems in autism
146 Fragile X syndrome’s link to autism
154 Rett syndrome's link to autism
160 The link between epilepsy and autism