Flip Schrameijer

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Are body temperature responses intact in autism?

It's a well established fact that many on the autism spectrum have an aberrant temperature perception, which can result from too high and too low sensory thresholds or both. In order to stabilize...

05 January 2016 9,035 11 View

Autism: what can be done to improve the academic interchange between the justice system and the mental health sector?

One of the area’s where multi-disciplinary collaboration is direly needed is around the encounter between autism and the justice system. Study on all levels seems warranted. Criminologists should...

03 October 2015 9,835 12 View

Which disturbances in the brain positioning system can explain autistic problems of orientation in space?

It is well known people on the spectrum experience difficulties in orientation in space. For general explanations of this, disturbances in proprioception and the vestibular system are usually...

04 March 2015 8,466 9 View

Is there a reliable estimate of the prevalence of perceptual problems concerning color among people on the autism spectrum?

Some differentiation seems needed here. It's clear extreme hypersensitivity (hyperseclectivity) to one or more particular colors to the point where they can be unbearable exists among people on...

18 August 2014 5,342 1 View

Are people on the autism spectrum mainly 'high screeners', 'low screeners' or both/neither where the perception of color is concerned?

Dijkstra, Pieterse and Pruyn (2008) found that individual differences in the effects of color could to a large extent be explained by "the ability to screen out irrelevant stimuli within the...

15 August 2014 7,331 2 View

What’s the latest insight about pain and autism?

As far as I know the controversy is or was between a higher pain threshold, so less pain experience on one hand or a different expression of the same pain felt by non-autistic people. Nader et al....

01 February 2014 8,312 5 View

Who knows any sociological studies about the emancipation of autism?

Over the last 20 years or so there's been a remarkable rise in public awareness around autism. Its public image has changed profoundly if only one looks at its portrayal in ‘Rain man’ and the...

14 November 2013 2,381 2 View

Priscilla Gilman in Yesterdays NYT on autism and violence

I sympathize emphatically with the gist of yesterdays op-ed article of Priscilla Gilman in the NYT about putting blame on Lanza’s supposed Asperger’s....

18 December 2012 1,631 3 View

Architecture for autism. Who has sources for empirical and/or effect research ?

For the last three years I've been trying to find out as much as I could about architectural adaptations to better accommodate people on the autistic spectrum. I've learned a great deal from...

04 December 2012 6,204 23 View