Johnson, Mark H. (2017) Autism as an adaptive common variant pathway for human brain development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 25 , pp. 5-11. ISSN 1878-9293.
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Abstract
While research on focal perinatal lesions has provided evidence for recovery of function, much less is known about processes of brain adaptation resulting from mild but widespread disturbances to neural processing over the early years (such as alterations in synaptic efficiency). Rather than being viewed as a direct behavioral consequence of life-long neural dysfunction, I propose that autism is best viewed as the end result of engaging adaptive processes during a sensitive period. From this perspective, autism is not appropriately described as a disorder of neurodevelopment, but rather as an adaptive common variant pathway of human functional brain development.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD) |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Mar 2017 15:56 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2024 04:55 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/18363 |
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