Title Slide
The Investigators
AUTISM: ROAD MAP TO A CURE
Complex Information Processing...
Table - Cognitive Profile in Autism
Trying to Understand Thinking
Intact or Enhanced Abilities & Deficits
Results
Motor Impairment
Memory
Picture
Abstract Reasoning Deficits in Non-Retarded Autistic Individuals
Infants are born with automatic mechanisms that allow them to form Prototypical Representations of Information
Pitt Infant and Toddler Development Center
Or– Which of these is the best example of a dog?
Autism and Visual Information Processing
Another Characterization of Information Processing in Autism: Global-Local Processing
Deriving Global from Local Elements
John A. Sweeney, Ph.D....
Direct current EOG
fMRI Activation During a Spatial Working Memory Task
Brain activation during sentence comprehension in high-functioning autistic subjects
Distribution of Activation in language network; Replication at 3 T (lower panel)
Reliably lower functional connectivity for autistic participants between pairs of key areas during sentence comprehension (red end of scale denotes lower connectivity)
Functional connectivity
Total Brain Volume Morphometrics
Ponies to Space Shuttles
Author: Nancy J. Minshew, M.D.
Email: autismrecruiter@msx.upmc.edu
Home Page: http://www.pitt.edu/~nminshew
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