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- Explains the vast array of different conditions that hide behind the two labels, autism and Asperger syndrome
- Explores the links with neuroscience, psychology, brain development, and genetics
- Looks at controversial issues such as MMR and Thimerosal, and whether there really has been a genuine rise in autism spectrum disorders
- Highly authoritative: Uta Frith is one of the founding researchers in the field of autism
- Describes some of the extraordinary 'savant' abilities of people from the autistic spectrum
- Interweaves the science with a focus on the everyday, practical issues facing people with an autistic condition, to shed light on what it is like to live inside the mind of the sufferer.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Frith, Uta
- ISBN13 9780199207565
- ISBN10 0199207569
- Pages 144
- Collection Very Short Introductions #195
- Published 2008
- Language English
Autism: A Very Short Introduction
- Author Uta Frith
- Publisher OXFORD U.P.
- ISBN 9780199207565
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