PSYC 4176 Chapter : Chapter 12
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Chapter 12 - autism spectrum disorder (asd) and schizophrenia. Early on confusion over the boundaries between asd and schizophrenia were considerable. From the 1930s to 1970s much of what is now called asd was referred to as childhood schizophrenia. The first popular paper on asd was published by leo kanner in 1943. Hans asperger was doing parallel research but got little recognition until the. Both were austrian but kanner being jewish immigrated to the us. His work was published in english thus it became popular. Asperger"s work was in german and thus got very little attention. A distinguishing feature both authors remark on is that the problem begins: drops asperger"s syndrome, pdd-nos, childhood disintegrative, drops the asd triad (communication, social and repetitive and. Dsm-5: very controversial stereotyped behavior: goes to 2 major categories, 1. Autistic regression: occurs about 20-24 months of age in roughly the cases. Variability in symptoms expressed and severity of symptoms vary case by case.
