Does autism alter the white matter of the brain? http://dailym.ai/1WRA8T5 via http://dailym.ai/android
Does autism alter the brain, or is an altered brain the cause of autism?
Autism is a social disorder and falls within the spectrum of antisocial personality disorder.
Brain scans performed on inmates in the penal system have indicated differences in the frontal lobes of men diagnosed with antisocial personalities, as opposed to those who were not diagnosed with the disorder.
In an attempt to understand APD, should we not scan the brains of all people who fall within in the spectrum? Perhaps APD is, on some level, organic; treatment indicating medication, as cognitive behavioral therapy seems to have failed miserably up until now, may be the answer.
Aledgedly, one quarter of the the human population suffers from sociopathy; doesn't it behoove the medical community to investigate this option?
Studies indicate that behavioral therapy fails because sociopaths apparently utilize their tools and behavior to fool the therapist into believing they are completely fine in regards to personality, and in many cases these people never seek treatment in the first place.
I am excited to see research making strides in regards to autism, and I hope that because of the brain changes, that autism might be treated medicinally, however, I would really like to see everyone on the antisocial spectrum receive the same advocacy. It seems that presently, sociopathy is one, highly misunderstood, and two, stigmatized in popular culture. These people are our children, our spouses, our friends. If sociopathy can be treated with medication that influences the frontal lobe, we might actually make major strides, perhaps, in the treatment of everyone on the spectrum.
-Deannalynn Arzola
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