Autism

Question 1

DSM-5

Answer 1

Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction

Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interest or activities.

Question 2

Wind’s triad of impairments

Answer 2

Problems in:

Social relationships: hard to keep friends bc of tom

Communication: eye contact trouble (lot or not enough)

Imagination: Hard to imagine what’s going on in other peoples minds

Question 3

Underlying mechanisms of ASD

Answer 3

Theory of mind

Executive functioning: control panel of the brain, attention, working memory, inhibition, flexibility, planning skills etc.

Central coherence: Focus on details, problems to bring details together into coherent whole. Interpret it wrong. Independent entities, can’t put them together.