The Social Brain & Autism | Psych-100 | Chapter 38 | Flourish with Diane Planidin

Autistic people often struggle with initiating, maintaining, and understanding social interactions. Social neuroscience is the study of the parts of the brain that support social interactions or the “social brain.” This module provides an overview of ASD and focuses on understanding how social brain dysfunction leads to ASD. Our increasing understanding of the social brain and its differences in ASD will allow us to better identify the genes that cause ASD and will help us to create and pick out treatments to better match individuals. 

Because social brain systems emerge in infancy, social neuroscience can help us to figure out how to diagnose ASD even before the symptoms of ASD are clearly present. This is a hopeful time because social brain systems remain malleable well into adulthood and thus open to creative new interventions that are informed by state-of-the-art science.

This episode will help you:

- Know the basic symptoms of ASD.
- Distinguish components of the social brain and understand their differences in ASD.
- Appreciate how social neuroscience may facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of ASD.

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