Neuroscientist Jason Cooperrider and colleagues scanned Grandin’s brain using three different methods: high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which captures the structure of the brain diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a method to trace the. Since her birth in 1947, our understanding of it has undergone a great transformation, leading to more hope than ever before that we may finally learn the causes of and treatments for autism. The HBO movie based on her life, starring Claire Danes, received seven Emmy Awards. Her brain is equally remarkable, according to a team of neuroimaging experts who study brain changes in autism at the University of Utah. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Temple Grandin may be the most famous person with autism, a condition that affects 1 in 88 children. She is a professor at Colorado State University and the author of several best-selling books, which have sold more than a million copies. Temple Grandin is one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism. The Autistic Brain is essential reading from the most respected and beloved voices in the field. Grandin weaves her experience with new discoveries, introducing the neuroimaging advances and genetic research that link brain science to behavior-all leading to a route toward more effective mainstreaming and a way to unleash the unique advantages of autistic people.

Now Temple Grandin reports from the forefront of autism science, bringing her singular perspective to the latest science of autism. And our thinking about it has undergone a transformation in her lifetime: Autism studies have moved from the realm of psychology to neurology and genetics, and there is far more hope today than ever before thanks to groundbreaking new research into causes, treatments, and cures. In The Autistic Brain, her latest book, written with the science author Richard Panek, she shows this talent most vividly in a middle chapter that looks at the sensory world of autism. Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in 88 children diagnosed on the spectrum. When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. The Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin, Richard Panek, 2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers edition, in English.

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