Autism as a developmental disorder in intentional movement and affective engagement
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Autism as a developmental disorder in intentional movement and affective engagement
We review evidence that autistic spectrum disorders have their origin in early prenatal failure of development in systems that program timing, serial coordination and prospective control of movements, and that regulate affective evaluations of experiences. There are effects in early infancy, before medical diagnosis, especially in motor sequencing, selective or exploratory attention, affective ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1662-5145
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2013.00049