Sentences with phrase «called asperger»

13 Hans Asperger, an Austrian pediatrician, identified what is now called Asperger's syndrome: a form of autism marked by intense absorption in a very narrow range of special interests.

Horrific details of his involvement were revealed yesterday in the journal Molecular Autism and will be detailed in a forthcoming book called Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna.

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A Question of Focus The subtitle of Page's memoir is Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's, and indeed Page didn't learn until age 45 that he suffers from what is called autism spectrum disorder, or ASD.

The new book and paper suggest that Asperger referred dozens of children to a clinic called Am Spiegelgrund in Vienna, where doctors experimented on children or killed them.

Controversially, it also included several newly identified disorders such as Asperger's and a sub-threshold category, called «pervasive developmental disorder — not otherwise specified» (PDD - NOS), for those who did not quite meet criteria for a full autism diagnosis but needed similar support.

For example, a 2003 study identified a mutation — a single - letter switch in the genetic code for a protein called neuroligin - 3 — in two Swedish brothers, one with autism and one with the related but milder Asperger syndrome.

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Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock, the «consulting detective» called upon for challenging police cases, is a tetchy, borderline Asperger syndrome genius more interested in a challenge than dispensing justice while Martin Freeman's Watson, an army surgeon home from Afghanistan, is a warm, loyal and often critical assistant to his eccentric roommate as he slips into his role as assistant.

I also read an incredible memoir called, «Look me in the Eyes», written by John Elder Robison, where he tries to make sense of his past after only being diagnosed with Asperger's in his 40's.

We all have disorders as it seems I have Asperger's syndrome, I was born with double club foot, and I have something (I forget what It's called) where I get frustrated or annoyed really easily.

So that was basically how the so - called autism epidemic began — when Kanner's criteria were swapped out of the DSM for Asperger's criteria.