Neuromuscular Systems Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Faculty, Amirkabir University of Technology Correspondence: Shahriar Gharibzadeh, Neuromuscular Systems Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Faculty, Amirkabir University of Technology, Somayyeh, Hafez, Tehran, Iran e-mail: gharibzadeh{at}aut.ac.ir To the Editor: Autism is a neural development disorder in which some aspects of cognition, perception, and information-processing are disturbed. It seems that autistic patients have difficulties with processing complex situations. For example: 1) one main problem of autistic patients is their problematic involvement in social interactions, which are simply the hardest thing our brains have to process;1 2) motion sensitivity of autistic patients is significantly decreased for second-order (texture-defined) stimuli;2 3) auditory tests show that spectrally- and temporally dynamic tasks involving complex operations (evaluation, attention) are not performed appropriately in autistic persons.3 We suggest that the abovementioned autistic behaviors may be interpreted by the dynamic core hypothesis (DCH) of consciousness. According to the DCH, consciousness arises from a group of neurons (the dynamic core), whose dynamics are simultaneously differentiated and integrated. Based on this view, in conscious states, the dynamic core integrates different pieces of input information that have high entropy and variability, leading to conscious perception of these complex inputs.4 We suppose that ineffective dealing with complex
Does the "Dynamic Core" Approach Help to Manage Autistic Behavioral Disorders?
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Neuromuscular Systems Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Faculty, Amirkabir University of Technology Correspondence: Shahriar Gharibzadeh, Neuromuscular Systems Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Faculty, Amirkabir University of Technology, Somayyeh, Hafez, Tehran, Iran e-mail: gharibzadeh{at}aut.ac.ir To the Editor: Autism is a neural development disorder in which some aspects of cognition, perception, and information-processing are disturbed. It seems that autistic patients have difficulties with processing complex situations. For example: 1) one main problem of autistic patients is their problematic involvement in social interactions, which are simply the hardest thing our brains have to process;1 2) motion sensitivity of autistic patients is significantly decreased for second-order (texture-defined) stimuli;2 3) auditory tests show that spectrally- and temporally dynamic tasks involving complex operations (evaluation, attention) are not performed appropriately in autistic persons.3 We suggest that the abovementioned autistic behaviors may be interpreted by the dynamic core hypothesis (DCH) of consciousness. According to the DCH, consciousness arises from a group of neurons (the dynamic core), whose dynamics are simultaneously differentiated and integrated. Based on this view, in conscious states, the dynamic core integrates different pieces of input information that have high entropy and variability, leading to conscious perception of these complex inputs.4 We suppose that ineffective dealing with complex
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Does the "Dynamic Core" Approach Help to Manage Autistic Behavioral Disorders?
Bakouie, Fatemeh; Gharibzadeh, Shahriar; Towhidkhah, Farzad
Follow Journal of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences
, Volume 23 (3): E1
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Aug 1, 2011
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