What can Aspergers be misdiagnosed as?

Because of the sim- ilarities in these disorders, however, children with Asperger’s are sometimes misdiagnosed with ADHD.

What does Aspergers do to the brain?

Conclusions. We found that, compared with controls, people with Asperger’s syndrome have age‐related differences in brain anatomy, structural abnormalities in fronto‐striatal systems and the cerebellum, and impaired sensorimotor gating.

Does Asperger’s show up on a brain scan?

Tracking Brain Activity in Asperger’s Patients. Results of the functional and diffusion MRI scans showed that compared with people with no cognitive problems, people with Asperger’s syndrome: Have increased activation in the brain network that governs attention.

What is true-believer syndrome?

True-believer syndrome is an expression coined by M. Lamar Keene to describe an apparent cognitive disorder characterized by believing in the reality of paranormal or supernatural events after one has been presented overwhelming evidence that the event was fraudulently staged.

Is it Asperger’s syndrome or autism spectrum disorder?

(Note: as detailed below, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders now uses the term Autism Spectrum Disorder, but many people still use Asperger’s Syndrome or similar terms. Like many autistic people, I prefer identity-first language such as “Aspie” or “autistic person” to “person with AS.”)

Why do people say I Can’t have Aspergers?

This is a common response to hearing about an AS characteristic such as difficulty reading social cues. Another common response is, “I have that symptom too (e.g., social anxiety), so you can’t have Asperger’s.” AS is a syndrome – a collection of qualities – not a single symptom.

Are people with Asperger’s good at folk psychology?

Normal people are good at “folk psychology” (social interactions), he says, and people with Asperger’s are interested in “folk physics” (how things work). One day a frantic mother called me, upset that her young child, who had an IQ over 150, had been diagnosed with Asperger’s.