With publication of the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-IV), standardized criteria for Asperger Disorder, a putative subtype of Pervasive Developmental Disorder, are now available. This paper examines the four cases Asperger originally presented in his seminal paper (1991/1994), using DSM-IV criteria to determine whether a diagnosis of Autistic o...

childhood autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments in social interactions, verbal and non-verbal communication and by a pattern of stereotypical behaviors and interests. the aim of this study was to estimate the dysmorphic facial features of children with autism and children with asperger syndrome.the examination was conducted on 60 children (30 with childhood autism...

BACKGROUND The relationship between autism spectrum disorders/pervasive developmental disorders and personality disorders is not completely clear, although both concepts imply lifelong impairment. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the presence of possible personality disorders in a group of young adults with Asperger syndrome. METHOD Fifty-four young adults with a clinical d...

Asperger Syndrome (also called Asperger Disorder) is a relatively new category of developmental disorder, the term having only come into more general use over the past fifteen years. Although a group of children with this clinical picture was originally and very accurately described in the 1940's by a Viennese pediatrician, Hans Asperger, Asperger Syndrome (AS) was "officially" recognized in th...

This study dealt with the language disorder of main character in "Please Stand By" movie. The aims this were to describe symptoms and types who suffered from Asperger Syndrome. descriptive qualitative method was used supported by psycholinguistic approach using Carrol's theory describing faced found out that movie experienced two first social communication interaction second one restricted, rep...

Hans Asperger studied mental abnormalities in children in Vienna, Austria, in the early twentieth century. Asperger was one of the early researchers who studied the syndrome that was later named after him, Asperger's Syndrome. Asperger described the syndrome in his 1944 publication Die Autistischen Psychopathen im Kindesalter (Autistic Psychopathy in Childhood). At that time, the syndrome was c...

Asperger syndrome (AS) was first described under the title of autistic psychopathy by the Austrian physician Hans Asperger (1944). Despite the growing interest in it, its nosological status remains uncertain. It is not clear to what extent it differs from autism, although some authorities have proposed that it is part of the "autistic continuum" (Wing, 1981). The DSMIII-R (American Psychiatric ...

Although people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often have severe problems with pragmatic aspects of language, little is known about their pragmatic reasoning. We carried out a behavioral study on high-functioning adults with autistic disorder (n = 11) and Asperger syndrome (n = 17) and matched controls (n = 28) to investigate whether they are capable of deriving scalar implicatures, which...

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 ...

objective: to obtain abnormalities in quantitative electroencephalography qeeg) and to observe connectivity between electrodes in children with asperger disorder. method: in this study, spectrogram criteria and coherence values are used as a tool for evaluating qeeg in 15 children with asperger disorder (10 boys and 5 girls aged between 6 to 11 years old) and in 11 control children boys and 4 g...