Emanuel Miller lecture: Confusions and controversies about Asperger syndrome

Emanuel Miller lecture: confusions and controversies about Asperger syndrome.

BACKGROUND Hans Asperger drew attention to individuals who show the core symptoms of autism in the presence of high verbal intelligence. METHODS A review of the literature explores current issues concerning the diagnosis and nature of Asperger syndrome. RESULTS The behavioural and neurophysiological evidence to date suggests that Asperger syndrome is a variant of autism typically occurring ...

[Historical and clinical review about Asperger syndrome].

The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 1994. Depressive disorders in childhood: an impressionistic landscape.

To convey an impressionistic landscape of depressive disorders in childhood, studies of clinically referred and diagnosed patients as well as community samples, and data from experimental investigations are used to consider five questions: Are depressive syndromes morbid states in childhood? Should we be concerned about depression in childhood? How do very early-onset depressions arise? What ha...

Emanuel Miller lecture developmental risks (still) associated with early child care.

In the mid to late 1980s a major controversy erupted when Belsky's (1986, 1988. 1990) analysis of research produced the conclusion that early and extensive nonmaternal care carried risks in terms of increasing the probability of insecure infant-parent attachment relationships and promoting aggression and noncompliance during the toddler, preschool, and early primary school years. Widespread cri...

What's so special about Asperger Syndrome?