Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; The epidemiology of pervasive developmental disorders; The savant syndrome in autistic disorder; The brain during life in autism: Advances in neuroimaging research; EEG in autism: Is there just too much going on in there?; GABAergic Dysfunction in Autism; Minicolumnar Pathology in Autism; The use of animal models to understand autism spectrum disorder; Neural network modelling of autism; Autism research: Future directions.