PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Etiology, Dysdiadochokinesia, Neurochemistry
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Deficient social interaction, communication: lack of reciprocal conversation, reduced sharing of interest, emotions, affect, failure to initiate or respond to social interactions, infants failure to cuddle, do not respond to other peoples bodies, kids don"t look at you, a though others are not there or inanimate no social relationships, trouble understanding other people; empathy, eg/ trouble with sarcasm take literal meaning of words; cannot tell with tone, toddlers like to share with others those with autism do not share. Social withdrawal: hyper reactivity t sensory stimuli, more cortical cells, more intra , extra cortical connections, more connections, branching dendrites consistent with hyper stimulation, brain has too many connections, brain hyper reactive to stimuli, individual withdraws to cope with chaos. Psych 2ap3: orbitofrontal cortex, lateral pc, superior temporal sulcus (sts, fusiform face area (ffa, amygdala, mirror neurons (cid:224) may not be a deficit.