Autism spectrum disorder.

doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-64148-9.00010-7

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Autism spectrum disorder.

Handbook of clinical neurology - 1 Jan 2020

Mottron Laurent

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Autism is a frequent, precocious behavioral constellation of social and communicative atypicalities associated with apparently restricted interests and repetitive behavior and paired with an uneven ability profile. Its definition has constantly broadened in the past 75 years, introducing phenotypes increasingly distant from its initial description, heterogeneous in intelligence and speech level, and associated...

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Autism Spectrum Disorder
Cognition
Humans
Phenotype

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