autism

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

National Academy of Sciences

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

neuroscientist

European Academy of Sciences and Arts

is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other people's thoughts.

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other people's thoughts.

is at root concerned with restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.

Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated with some degree of intellectual disability, but the two core features of autism, I see, is impairments and social cognition, understanding and in restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.

Gerald Fischbach

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