Autism, Background

McCormmach, Russell

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Russell McCormmach¹

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1.
Roth, Autism Spectrum, 27.
2.
Grandin quoted in Norm Ledgin, Asperger’s and Self-Esteem: Insight and Hope through Famous Role Models (Arlington, Texas: Future Horizons, 2002), x.
3.
Baron-Cohen, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, 16.
4.
Roth, Autism Spectrum, 7–8.
5.
Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, 45.
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Roth, Autism Spectrum, 8.
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Ibid., 9. Attwood, Asperger’s Syndrome, 12–13.
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Baron-Cohen, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, vii. Roth, Autism Spectrum, 25. Attwood, Asperger’s Syndrome, 36.
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Attwood, Asperger’s Syndrome, 44–45.
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In technical terms, there is a dysfunction of the “social brain” located in the frontal and temporal cortex, and probably also in the amygdala, the basil ganglia, and the cerebellum. There is probably also a dysfunction of the right hemispherical cortex and an abnormality of the dopamine system. Attwood, Asperger’s Syndrome, 327–28.
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Ledgin, Asperger’s and Self-Esteem, 30. Attwood, Asperger’s Syndrome, 21, 328. Baron-Cohen, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, viii, 85–86, 92, 95.
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Roth, Autistic Spectrum, 277–8.
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Attwood, Asperger’s Syndrome, 295.
14.
Eugene, Oregon, Register-Guard, 30 March 2012.
15.
New York Times, 20 January 2012. Roth, Autism Spectrum, 275.
16.
American Psychiatric Association, Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-5 (Washington DC, London: American Psychiatric Publishing, 2013), 3–6, 27–31.

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McCormmach, R. (2014). Autism, Background. In: The Personality of Henry Cavendish - A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities. Archimedes, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02438-7_16

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