Enhanced Motion Perception in Autism May Point to an Underlying Cause of the Disorder - Polidicks

[url]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130508131829.htm[/url] [QUOTE][B]Children with autism see simple movement twice as quickly as other children their age, and this hypersensitivity to motion may provide clues to a fundamental cause of the developmental disorder, according to a new study.[/B] Such heightened sensory perception in autism may help explain why some people with the disorder are painfully sensitive to noise and bright lights. It also may be linked to some of the complex social and behavioral deficits associated with autism, says Duje Tadin, one of the lead authors on the study and an assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester. "We think of autism as a social disorder because children with this condition often struggle with social interactions, but what we sometimes neglect is that almost everything we know about the world comes from our senses. Abnormalities in how a person sees or hears can have a profound effect on social communication," says Tadin.[/QUOTE]

the FBI should create the Autistic Special Squad a task force where they can put their powers to good use. like hunting down loud noises

Maybe its just me, but all the medical advances so far this year are extremely promising. This is great news

Wait, if they're so good at sensing movements, why do they have trouble with non-verbal communication?

[QUOTE=IKTM;40587906]Wait, if they're so good at sensing movements, why do they have trouble with non-verbal communication?[/QUOTE] It's not just non verbal communication. It's lack of being able to react to social circumstances in a scientific method. Social methods cannot be scrunched down into a "if person A does X, reply with Y" very well, and its even harder to do that when exact language is not involved.

[QUOTE]"We think of autism as a social disorder because children with this condition often struggle with social interactions, but what we sometimes neglect is that almost everything we know about the world comes from our senses. Abnormalities in how a person sees or hears can have a profound effect on social communication,"[/QUOTE] So we may be able to fix the problem early in life through a surgery or cure it with chemicals that affect the brain?

[QUOTE=IKTM;40587906]Wait, if they're so good at sensing movements, why do they have trouble with non-verbal communication?[/QUOTE] i'm pretty sure the whole idea of this is that if we find out what other things people with autism do differently to others [I]apart[/I] from communication then maybe we'll be able to pinpoint the region of the brain affected by autism and the mechanisms involved

How can this benefit people who have Autism and have grown out of childhood?

I'm off to go test this

[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;40588538]How can this benefit people who have Autism and have grown out of childhood?[/QUOTE] Probably not for now. I often thought that there may be a connection between perception and reaction towards the surrounding world. I get easily baffled when something shiny or pretty colored passes by me. Maybe this would ease the problems of non-verbal communication. Maybe the mimics in one's face move too slow and the reading is therefore struggling.

I remember reading a theory that autism was potentially or partially caused by too much androgen exposure in the womb, leading to a excessively masculine pattern brain which was to explain why they performed very well with spacial measurements etc, but were crippled socially.

As somebody who works with autistic children, it is interesting to see how different they all are to each other, no child can be related to another. I've yet to see one of the children of who is sensitive to light, but most of them don't like loud noises and we do supply them with sound blocking headphones.

[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;40588538]How can this benefit people who have Autism and have grown out of childhood?[/QUOTE] Keep in mind that Autism affects perception. It's like been paralyzed. As far as I know it's like having a permanent head heck because of the altered perception. It affects all sense (olfaction too). From what I saw/read Autism makes your brain unable to isolate single thing, so you just receive thousands of inputs per seconds that makes you unable to process information as "normal" people do. Imagine been in a club with 50 song all together at a high volume while people are screaming, multiple colored strobes direct to your eyes, many different strong smells and 100 things touching you. Maybe this is more less what an autistic person feels in an average exposition to sense. In fact they get nervous in crowded places with many lights and sounds. The human brain can't keep up with that huge amount on information but in this case it can't even stop them (inputs) to be received. It might be a stupid example but ddos attacks have the same basic logic of autism, sending many communication request until the server collapse because it can't handle it. The worst thing is that everything else in the brain works just fine. They can think and they can feel emotion as we all do. Give them a keyboard and they can talk to you with a correct and articulated English (if they were able to lean it in their condition) Just watch this or search for more: (I know it's the usual song based emotion doc. but it gives you an idea) [video=youtube_share;F4XMlhCfp3Q]http://youtu.be/F4XMlhCfp3Q[/video] So in my opinion yes, if they find a way to fix autism at any age it would be like freeing that person from a never ending torture. Not been able to express your self and been treated as a retarded person (most of the times) but at the same time knowing your condition is a big one. I apologize for my English btw

[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;40586153]Maybe its just me, but all the medical advances so far this year are extremely promising. This is great news[/QUOTE]There's always promising stuff going on in science, it just takes so long to reach the public-ready stage that some plonkers think it's being stashed away in the Bilderberg Group's secret vault in Area 51 if it's not immediately ready for use after some particular piece of a complex scientific puzzle has been announced to the public. Medical breakthroughs especially go through a gauntlet of tests before we can be sure it won't end up like e.g. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir_Sulfanilamide_disaster"]Elixir sulfanilamide[/URL] or [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide]Thalidomide[/url].

[QUOTE=Nofe92;40592741]Keep in mind that Autism affects perception. It's like been paralyzed. As far as I know it's like having a permanent head heck because of the altered perception. It affects all sense (olfaction too). From what I saw/read Autism makes your brain unable to isolate single thing, so you just receive thousands of inputs per seconds that makes you unable to process information as "normal" people do. Imagine been in a club with 50 song all together at a high volume while people are screaming, multiple colored strobes direct to your eyes, many different strong smells and 100 things touching you. Maybe this is more less what an autistic person feels in an average exposition to sense. In fact they get nervous in crowded places with many lights and sounds. The human brain can't keep up with that huge amount on information but in this case it can't even stop them (inputs) to be received. It might be a stupid example but ddos attacks have the same basic logic of autism, sending many communication request until the server collapse because it can't handle it. The worst thing is that everything else in the brain works just fine. They can think and they can feel emotion as we all do. Give them a keyboard and they can talk to you with a correct and articulated English (if they were able to lean it in their condition) Just watch this or search for more: (I know it's the usual song based emotion doc. but it gives you an idea) [video=youtube_share;F4XMlhCfp3Q]http://youtu.be/F4XMlhCfp3Q[/video] So in my opinion yes, if they find a way to fix autism at any age it would be like freeing that person from a never ending torture. Not been able to express your self and been treated as a retarded person (most of the times) but at the same time knowing your condition is a big one. I apologize for my English btw[/QUOTE] I can actually agree to your post. I've only been to clubs very few times and it's pretty much this. Of course I am able to concentrate on certain things, but I cannot fully isolate other senses and therefore at some point I just freak the fuck out and need to get somewhere calm. The ddos isn't 100% right since the server is not processing parallel.