This Article  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

edited by Margaret L. Bauman and Thomas L. Kemper, 272 pp, $87.50, Baltimore, Md, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Martha Bridge Denckla, MD, Reviewer
Baltimore, Md

Arch Neurol. 1995;52(5):447.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

This is an excellent multiauthored volume to which outstanding researchers and thinkers have contributed. A remarkable number of topics are covered in fewer than 250 pages. Along the way, the reader will learn a great deal about the methods applied to research on autism as well as about autism itself. The favorite chapter of this reviewer, in terms of education about brain-behavior relationships, is that of Schmahmann (on the newer concepts of the contributions to cognition of the cerebellum). Chapters 8 and 9 could be given to any neurologist-in-training as a "minitext" on memory.

The breadth and depth of the neuroscience in this compact, easy-to-handle volume protect it against one's only disappointment: the mystery of autism remains unsolved. This is hardly the fault of the contributors or the courageous editors (themselves substantial contributors). The epilogue (chapter 12) in all modesty stakes out a convincing claim that, in the 50 years . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?