APERGERS

ASPERGERS - NEUROBIOLOGICAL DISORDER

ASPERGERS

• Aspergers- these abnormalities found in social part of brain
• Present at birth(you're born with it)
• Discovered by Hans Asperger in 1944
• No official diagnosis method - Doctors see if certain symptoms are demonstrated

symptoms

• significant difficulty interacting with other people
• unusually or irrationally stubborn
• have interests they pursue with unusual intensity
• trouble with double meanings
• overact or underact to things affecting the senses

TREATMENENT

• treated biologically: diet, vitamins, medication to treat brain chemistry
• stimulants, antidepressants, neuroleptics
• can treat, but not cure

STATISTICS

• 1 in 500 people are affected by Aspergers. (.2%)
• Other studies show .7% of people have aspergers.
• 400% more men have aspergers than women

Resources
Aspergers Society of Ontario- www.aspergers.ca
Aspergers Syndrome Education Network-
www.aspennj.org