Brain 2010: 133; 611–624 | 611 ("A JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY") is an article about the representation of the "self" within the structure of the brain. In short, ASCs ( = Autism Spectrum Condition) seem to think about themselves similar to how they think about any other person (that they know) while "Controls" seem to activate additional parts of the brain when thinking about themselves. Go read yourselves!

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This post was last modified: 11-21-2010 11:48 PM by Shnoing.

i can buy that. im often shocked at how selfish nts are. i assume we are all the same. cos duh of course we are

Quite interesting - I wonder how I can find a test for this part..

The ventromedial seems to be the differing part:

"the magnitude of neural self-other distinction in ventromedial prefrontal cortex was strongly related to the
magnitude of early childhood social impairments in autism. Individuals whose ventromedial prefrontal cortex made the largest
distinction between mentalizing about self and other were least socially impaired in early childhood, while those whose
ventromedial prefrontal cortex made little to no distinction between mentalizing about self and other were the most socially
impaired in early childhood. These observations reveal that the atypical organization of neural circuitry preferentially coding
for self-information is a key mechanism at the heart of both self-referential and social impairments in autism."

Preferential coding... interesting!

So ... that makes auties the only un-biased observers?

like thats news

scientists should be, too ... so -> ?

Rgarding being unbiased...no, I think what that says is that on things involving SELF there may be more disconnect...

scientists don;t study themselves do they?

I think that this may ring true.. my aspie son stuidies sociologogy with great interest and understanding yet when he is concerned... things lack clarity to say the least.

As I understand it, you put always some SELF in everything you say. So, if your SELf is not so connected (or whatever) what you say should be more objective (?).