PSY341H5 Lecture 5: PSY341 LEC5.docx
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What dsm 5 has recategorized and renamed autism disorder. This lecture will cover what characterizes this disorder. Not everyone agrees what causes it, and how to treat it. There are some key symptoms that characterizes this disorder. Let"s introduce the dsm 4 disorders in this category pervasive developmental disorder (pdd: autism, rett"s, asperger"s, and childhood disintegrative disorder. The first and primary diagnosed disorder under pdd was called autism: define as a profound inability to socially interact with other people, this is considered to be a psychotic condition (most but not all clinicians agree) Interpreting the sensory info in a different way. Some suggest that these children are hypersensitive registering all your senses at the same time: unable to filter out sensory info from the sensory register, for normal people it decays quickly unless they find it important (attention"s role) It seems as though children with autism are unable to filter out sensory information properly.
