TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frith,Uta
TI  - Autism : : a very short introduction
SN  - 9780199207565
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - Autism
N2  - What causes autism? Is it a genetic disorder, or due to some unknown environmental hazard? Are we facing an autism epidemic? What are the main symptoms, and how does it relate to Asperger syndrome? It explores the relevance to autism of neuroscience, psychology, brain development, and genetics. Everyone has heard of autism, but the disorder itself is little understood. It has captured the public imagination through films and novels portraying individuals with baffling combinations of disability and extraordinary talent, and yet the reality is more often that it places a heavy burden on sufferers and their families
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