AUTISTIC DISORDER

Autistic disorder

[Name of the Institute]

Autistic disorder

Introduction

Autism is a spectrum of disorders characterized by severe deficits in the development, permanent and profound. It affects socialization, communication, imagination, planning, emotional reciprocity and repetitive behaviors or unusual. Symptoms generally include the inability of social interaction, isolation and stereotypes (uncontrolled movements of a limb, usually the hands). Over time, the frequency of these disorders increases. Due to this increase, monitoring and evaluation of strategies for early identification may allow early treatment and improve outcomes. Its origin is due to an abnormality in the neural connections that can be attributed, often to genetic mutations (Fombonne, 2005). However, this genetic component is not always present, as has been observed that the disorders suffered by a person with autism may have multiple components, as described the involvement of several risk factors acting together.

The genes that affect synaptic maturation are involved in the development of these disorders, leading to neurobiological theories that determine the origin of autism focuses on connectivity, and neuronal effects on the result of gene expression. There are several treatments, but not all been adequately studied. Improvements in strategies for early identification of the disease using both phenotypic characteristics and biological markers (e.g., changes, electrophysiological) may improve the effectiveness of current treatments (Kingston, 2007). The autistic child may go unnoticed until the fourth month of life, from there, linguistic evolution is stagnant, there is no reciprocity with the caller, do not appear the first intentional communication behaviors.

Discussion

It is estimated that autism affects four in every 10,000 people, which depends on diagnostic criteria used. In the U.S., one for every 150 children is diagnosed with autism. In the state of Oregon is diagnosed for every 88 children 1 with autism. It is believed that the incidence is increasing, but it is unclear whether this is due to a real increase in cases or simply a greater number of diagnoses. Autism affects four times as many men than to women, and can be found throughout the world, regardless of ethnicity or culture. Autism varies widely in severity. Severe cases are characterized by a complete absence of speaks for life.

The complex neurological disorder autism, or autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) as it is most commonly known today, has been a cause for mother blame since the early 1940s. In the early days, professionals blamed mothers for lacking warmth and thereby contributing to children's lack of social reciprocity (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Despite modern scientific knowledge, mothers of children with autism are still struggling to prove themselves guilt-free in the eyes of both professionals and society as a whole. It was in 1943 that Dr. Leo Kanner, an Austrian-born child psychiatrist, first identified a unique group of children at his clinic at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. These children presented similar behaviors, such as failing to develop normal social relationships and being upset by changes in the environment; they also had marked language impairments. It was later discussed that the autistic child's withdrawal from other peoples as a ...