Autism Spectrum Disorders: New Research

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have become a major public health concern due to increasing numbers of patients with this diagnosis and the level of disability from which they suffer. ASD symptoms over the life span can be synthesised into communication difficulties, awkward social relationships, unusual stereotypes and preoccupations, emotion regulation difficulties, and an unfavourable self-concept. In this book, the authors present new research in the study of ASD including emotion regulation, social cognition and social adjustment in children with ASD; modified dialectical behaviour therapy; coping strategies and QoL issues for mothers of children with high-functioning autism; distinct patterns of cortical co-ordinated activity in autism; identification and analysis of co-morbid psychopathology in ASD; cell therapies for ASD; criminal behaviour and ASD; markers of immunologic dysfunction in the etiopathology of ASD; and diagnosing and living with Autism Spectrum Disorders in adulthood.