Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Mnesic imbalance: a cognitive theory about autism spectrum disorders. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Open Access Review Mnesic imbalance a cognitive theory about autism spectrum disorders Miguel Ángel Romero-Munguía1 2 Address 1Hospital Psiquiátrico Dr. Samuel Ramirez Moreno Autopista México-Puebla Km Col. Santa Catarina Del. Tláhuac México City México and 2División de Estudios de Posgrado Facultad de Medicina Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM Ciudad Universitaria México City México Email Miguel Ángel Romero-Munguía - romero_munguia@ Published 17 October 2008 Received 4 June 2008 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008 7 20 doi l744-859X-7-20 Accepted 17 October 2008 This article is available from http content 7 1 20 2008 Romero-Munguía licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Autism is characterized by impairments in social interaction communicative capacity and behavioral flexibility. Some cognitive theories can be useful for finding a relationship between these irregularities and the biological mechanisms that may give rise to this disorder. Among such theories are mentalizing deficit weak central coherence and executive dysfunction but none of them has been able to explain all three diagnostic symptoms of autism. These cognitive disorders may be related among themselves by faulty learning since several research studies have shown that the brains of autistic individuals have abnormalities in the cerebellum which plays a role in procedural learning. In keeping with this view one may postulate the possibility that declarative memory replaces faulty procedural memory in some of its functions which implies making conscious efforts in order to perform actions that are normally automatic. This may .
