PREFACE
INTRODUCTION

I
VIEWS OF AUTISM
1.        Behavior and Language
2.        Etiologies and the Brain
3.        Spectrum of Impairments
4.        Personal View and Motivation
5.        Disrupted Development
6.        Major Points and Purpose

II
DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER
7.        Language and Auditory System Dysfunction
8.        Language and the Inferior Colliculi

III
VIEWPOINT ON NEUROLOGICAL IMPAIRMENTS
9.        The Nature of Autism
10.         Language and Hearing
11.       The Auditory System
12.        Brainstem Nuclei of High Metabolic Rate
13.        Perinatal Vulnerability
14.        Brainstem Damage in Cases of Neonatal Death
15.        Neuropathology in Autism
16.        Autism and Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs
17.        Autism and Phenylketonuria (PKU)
18.        Autism and Disintegrative Disorder

IV
RESEARCH TOPICS RELEVANT TO AUTISM
19.        Forgotten History
20.        Ranck and Windle (1959)
21.        Lucey et al. (1964)
22.        Faro and Windle (1969)
23.        Miller and Myers (1970, 1972)
24.        Myers (1972)
25.        Auditory Hyper-reactivity
26.        Development and Trophic Transmitters
27.        Wernicke's Encephalopathy
28.        Respiratory Depression at Birth
29.        Kernicterus

V.
Chronology and Context of Understanding
30.        Selected Highlights
31.        Nineteenth Century
32.        Early Twentieth Century (1900-1929)
33        1930-1939
34.       1940-1949
35.       1950-1959
36.        1960-1969
37.        1970-1879
38.        1980-1989
39.        1990-1999 (Decade of the Brain)
40.        The New Millenium

VI.
References

Index

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