Contemporary research uses several approaches to define biological markers: one may search for the characteristics of the “autistic brain,” look for autism genotype(s), or investigate comorbidity and environmental influences (Nadesan 2005). Viewing autism as a brain dysfunction (Fombonne 2003, Freeman and Cronin 2002, Wing 1997), psychiatrists and neuroscientists have tried to discover the disorder’s “brain address” (Wickelgren 2005, 1856) and have even suggested that the autistic brain is an extreme form of the “male brain” (Baron-Cohen 2002).
Tony Charman, professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College...
And here are the links for all the other articles mentioned by Vidal and Ortega:
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.