Autism Autonomy
In Search of Our Human Dignity
- 1st Edition - September 21, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Elizabeth B. Torres
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 8 0 9 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 8 1 0 - 1
Autism Autonomy: In Search of Our Human Dignity provides a new and unifying methodological framework and discusses machine learning and biometrics techniques to diagnose, charac… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAutism Autonomy: In Search of Our Human Dignity provides a new and unifying methodological framework and discusses machine learning and biometrics techniques to diagnose, characterize, and treat patterns of sensory motor control underlying autism symptoms. With the hope of improving basic research in these areas, this volume will allow readers to design better interventions and provide awareness of a number of new technologies used in the autism field. Wearable bio-sensing technologies, machine learning, and AI methods are all discussed regarding their applications to provide better self-awareness, interaction, diagnosis, and prognosis.
This volume is useful for researchers and clinicians interested in learning about these new technologies and how to enhance machine learning use in ASD for the betterment of patients.
This volume is useful for researchers and clinicians interested in learning about these new technologies and how to enhance machine learning use in ASD for the betterment of patients.
- Describes advanced tools and techniques from machine learning and biometrics to diagnose and treat autism
- Provides methods and their implementation using real data and simple computer programs for diagnosis and prognosis
- Presents the methods used to quantify social and individual neurobiological phenomena explained and implemented
- Chapters contain links to a companion website containing the computer code in MATLAB®/Python™ languages and the data samples to generate the graphics displayed on the figures for each chapter
Graduate students, neuroscientists, neurobiologists, neurologists, cognitive neuroscientists, clinicians, and anyone new to the field of neuroscience
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction: The super systems and human neurodevelopment
- Agency as the emerging balance between autonomy and control
- Contributions of ASD genetics to neuromotor development
- Shared ASD and brainstem genes
- The need to redefine autism
- Chapter 2. From Pavlov to Skinner to applied behavioral analyses: In search of a new cognitive revolution using AI, open data science, and machine learning
- NJACE years and lessons from the community
- Historical context of the exponential rise on autism: From diagnosis to (one) treatment, ABA
- Tracking the shifts in diagnostic criteria
- Easy-to-spot inaccuracies in the ABA rhetoric
- Why is ABA not effective?
- How can we fix this problem?
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 3. How babies attain volitional control
- Modeling the transition from autonomy to control by geometrically embedding the peripersonal space in the endogenous, redundant bodily space
- From artificial hidden units to real neurons in the posterior parietal cortex
- Controllable DOFs and volitional motions
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 4. Screening and diagnosing autism
- Prediagnosis: Screeners of neurodevelopment gone awry versus much earlier hidden signs
- Diagnoses: Psychiatry versus psychology
- The streamlined digital ADOS as an example of quantifiable sociomotor agency
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5. The autistic experience revealed through digital phenotyping
- Making the invisible visible
- Advancing our social commitment toward the collective well-being
- Some personal considerations
- Autism is delayed neuromotor development
- The listening (spontaneous) movements to evoke naïve exploration and stabilize self-autonomy in autism
- The (hidden) spontaneous naïve exploration in action
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 6. Autistic adults
- The autistic experience digitally captured can reshape our thinking about autism
- The autism motor signature
- PD versus ASD: The flip sides of the same coin
- Systemic negative impact against well-being
- Different body schema, different body image, different maps
- Morbidity and mortality in ASD adults
- Conclusions
- Chapter 7. Building autonomy to regain our agency in science
- The American university dream
- Experiencing the California system of the West Coast
- My frame of reference, the UCSD—Salk approach
- My personal experience at the state level: The NJACE
- The renaissance of autism in our worldwide closing conference of the NJACE
- The path forward
- Conclusions
- Chapter 8. The future generation got this
- Why I do what I do
- The next generation from the SMIL
- Conclusions
- Chapter 9. Conclusions
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 21, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 442
- No. of pages (eBook): 400
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128188095
- eBook ISBN: 9780128188101
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Elizabeth B. Torres
Dr. Torres is a Computational Neuroscientist who has been working on theoretical and empirical aspects of sensory motor integration and human cognition since the late 90’s. She graduated from Mathematics and Computer Science and spent a year at the NIH as a Pre-IRTA fellow, applying her skill set to the medical field. This work led to Pre-doctoral-fellowship funding (5 years) of graduate school. During her PhD at UCSD, she developed a new theoretical framework for the study of sensory motor integration, employing elements of Differential (Riemannian) geometry and tensor calculus adapted from Contemporary Mechanics and Dynamics to the realm of Cognitive Neuroscience. Upon PhD completion, she moved to CALTECH to receive postdoctoral training in electrophysiology and Computational Neural Systems as a Sloan-Swartz Fellow, a Della Martin Fellow and a Neuroscience Scholar. In parallel, she translated her models to work with humans suffering from pathologies of the nervous systems and built a new platform for personalized analyses of human naturalistic behaviors. She joined Rutgers University in 2008 and deployed her new platform to work on neurodevelopmental disorders with a focus on issues with social interactions. Under an NSF Cyber Enabled Discovery Award, she then launched a transformative research program in autism seeking to build synergies with industry, funded by the NSF Innovation Corps initiative. She filed four patent technologies and with the generous funding of the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation and the New Jersey Governor’s Council for the treatment and research of autism, she extended the new platform to study natural dyadic and social behaviors in general. Her lab’s vision has paved the way to seek new frontiers in personalized mobile-Health, dynamic diagnostics systems and new objectively-driven drug development for clinical trials. The overarching goal of her group is to create the means to quantify and track improvements in the person’s quality of life. Photo credit - Roy Groething.
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e27da3rxnMg
Affiliations and expertise
Psychology Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USARead Autism Autonomy on ScienceDirect