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AGE OF AUTISM: Part 1 David Kirby's Autism One Presentation: Metals, Myelin & Mitochondria Pathways to Autism?

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Social cognitive deficits link people with mild autism and relatives with BAP

Given a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests, both high-functioning people with autism and their relatives who show broad autism phenotype (BAP) share one psychological parameter most strongly: a deficit in social cognition, the ability to "read" psychological states from human faces or bodily motions.

This result from a new report in Archives of General Psychiatry pinpoints social cognition in autism as an important variable in genetic and brain studies.

http://www.searchmedica.com/search.d...ps-news-060209