How autism may stem from problems with prediction
IMO,autism tends to effect high-level cognitive domains because those domains depends on a lot of neural machinery. The particular neurochemical pathways that disrupt those high-level cognitive domains will differ between individuals though, and the gene-environment interactions involved seems to be a total mishmash of mutations in genes and environmental factors regulating the brain...If more genes are affected relating to attention, we might give a diagnosis of ADHD. It IS a spectrum. So when a title says Autism stems from problems with prediction, I would rather say that prediction and balance between prediction and stimuli sensation are frequently disrupted because they are high level forms of cognition that can get disrupted in a number of ways.<p>I am still new to Autism research, but in my own work and others, I am seeing that ASD is related to a reduction of neuro-typical sex differences. However, I do not think I&#x27;d say that Autism stems from reduced sexual differentiation. I&#x27;d characterize it as a piece of the puzzle, and that disrupted neural machinery will likely disrupt the processes of sexual neuro-differentiation.<p>I try to be very humble about making claims about Autism, because I have begun to see how truly complicated and multivariate the disorder(s), an dmainly want to focus on my efforts to aspects of the disorder that affect quality of life (and certainly not extinguish all neurodiversity).