Joseph Piven is a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has studied personality, language, and cognitive characteristics in non-autistic relatives of autistic individuals. He argues that these characteristics are genetically related to autism and are a qualitatively similar but milder expression of the genes that cause autism. Series: "M.I.N.D. Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [6/2007] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 12869]
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YES! I do not "fit" in the diagnostic criteria (DSM-iv) for an ASD, but as a Mom of a classically autistic boy, I see a lot of myself in him. Broader Autism Phenotype make sense to me. Thanks for putting this out there.
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