Table of contents for Asperger syndrome : a gift or a curse? / Viktoria Lyons and Michael Fitzgerald.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface
Chapter 1. Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Chapter 2. Gift or Curse
Chapter 3. Frontostriatal Hypothesis I. Executive Functions. II. Theory of Mind
Chapter 4. Medial Temporal Lobe Hypothesis
Chapter 5. Cerebellar Hypothesis
Chapter 6. Autism/Asperger Syndrome a Disorder of the Social Self
Chapter 7. William James Sidis (1898-1944)
Chapter 8. Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
Chapter 9. Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)
Chapter 10. Enoch Powell (1912-1998)
Chapter 11. Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956)
Chapter 12. Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995)
Chapter 13. Joy Adamson (1910-1980)
Chapter 14. Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Chapter 15. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Chapter16. Robert Walser (1878-1956)
Chapter 17. Conclusion
Index.

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Asperger's syndrome.
Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- Biography.
Autism -- Patients -- Biography.
Celebrities -- Mental health.
Celebrities -- Diseases.
Creative ability -- Psychological aspects.
Genius and mental illness.
Asperger Syndrome -- psychology.
Asperger Syndrome -- Case Reports.
Autistic Disorder -- Case Reports.
Autistic Disorder -- psychology.
Famous Persons -- Case Reports.
Personality Development -- Case Reports.
Psychological Theory.