Autism Spectrum Disorders (Hardcover)

Autism is an emerging area of basic and clinical research, and has only recently been recognized as a major topic in biomedical research. Approximately 1 in 100 children are diagnosed as autistic, so it is also an intense growth area in behavioral and educational treatments. Financial resources have begun to be raised for more comprehensive research and an increasing number of scientists are becoming involved in autism research. In many respects, autism has become a model for conducting translational research on a psychiatric disorder. This text provides a comprehensive summary of all current knowledge related to the behavioral, experiential, and biomedical features of the autism spectrum disorders including major behavioral and cognitive syndromology, common co-morbid conditions, neuropathology, neuroimmunology, and other neurological correlates such as seizures, allergy and immunology, gastroenterology, infectious disease, and epidemiology. Edited by three leading researchers, this volume contains over 80 chapters and nine shorter commentaries by thought leaders in the field, making the book a virtual "who's who" of autism research. This carefully developed book is a comprehensive and authoritative reference for what we know in this area as well as a guidepost for the next several years in all areas of autism research.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2011
First published:	June 2011
Editors:	David Amaral (Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience) • Daniel Geschwind (Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Human Genetics) • Geraldine Dawson (Chief Science Officer, Autism Speaks and Research Professor)
Dimensions:	283 x 221 x 53mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	1456
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-537182-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology
LSN:	0-19-537182-8
Barcode:	9780195371826

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