
The Autism Spectrum
Identification, Understanding, and Treatment in Global Context
- 1st Edition, Volume tbd - February 1, 2026
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Authors: Matthew K. Belmonte, Evdokia ANAGNOSTOU
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 8 4 6 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 8 4 7 - 5
This volume summarizes the basic and clinical sciences of autism with an understanding of how research and clinical treatment is affected by recent shifts of focus: from di… Read more
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This volume summarizes the basic and clinical sciences of autism with an understanding of how research and clinical treatment is affected by recent shifts of focus: from diagnostic categories to symptomatic dimensions, from provider-centered to patient-centered treatment approaches, from high-resource, individualistic country insights to those contributed from global cultures.
This volume discusses the field’s current state, whence it has come, where it is going, and how to get there. The volume weds basic and clinical understandings, state-of-the-art multivariate analyses, historical and cross-cultural information and relevance, and a patient-centered focus.
- Coverage includes molecular, neural, and psychodynamic aspects of Autism
- Discusses clinical features, subtypes, and targets for therapy
- Includes screening, assessment, and diagnosis
- Identifies medical and psychoeducational interventions plus skills training
Practicing neurologists. Psychiatrists and psychologists treating autism. Researchers in neurology
Analysis, across the lifespan, and across the globe
2. History, ideology, and the therapeutic alliance
Autism in the first person
Autism in the family
Action for Autism
Social history of autism: Kanner to Bettelheim and Rimland to Silberman
Scientific history of autism: from social cognition to perception, and loci to networks
3. Etiologies: molecular, neural, psychodynamic
Making sense of genetic heterogeneity
Genes, networks, and targeted treatments
Gut microflora and systemic inflammation
Developmental neuro-immune signalling
Environmental factors
Early developmental markers: neurophysiology and behaviour
4. Clinical features, subtypes, and targets for therapy
Cognitive and affective control
Motor control
Sensory perceptual control
Language
Social and other rewards
Fractionating autism: subtypes, profiles, and markers
Brain dynamics from physiology to information transfer
Epilepsy
5. Screening, assessment, and diagnosis
Global epidemiology
Quantitative diagnosis for all levels of resources
Diagnosis in pragmatic context
Neuropsychiatric comorbidities and gender effects
Identifying and assessing autism in the community
6. Interventions and therapies
Behavioural treatments: evidence, mechanisms, and individual targeting
Medications: means, ends, and prospects
Integrating medical and psychoeducational interventions
Addressing prerequisite skills
Augmentative and alternative communication
Educational and assistive technologies
Sleep therapies
7. Autism across the lifespan
Access to care and early mortality
Access to housing and the workplace
Ageing: neurodegenerative and other comorbiditie
- Edition: 1
- Volume: tbd
- Published: February 1, 2026
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Language: English
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Matthew K. Belmonte
EA