Episode Synopsis "Autism - detail focus / 'weak central coherence'"

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• London and a PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry
• Dyslexia - first theories and insights into its cause
• Dyslexia - speech processing and the spoonerisms test
• Dyslexia - visualising brain activity during speech processing
• Dyslexia - the English language and dyslexia in Europe
• Dyslexia - does it run in families?
• Autism - a disorder of behaviour or biology?
• Autism - the information processing revolution
• Autism - theory of mind and the Sally-Ann experiment
• Autism - Sabotage and Deception experiment
• Autism - detail focus / 'weak central coherence'
• Autism - a single disorder or a disorder spectrum?
• Brain substrates - visualising cognitive brain function, the brain's mentalising system
• Brain substrates - visualising the autistic brain