Vestibular Dysfunction in Childhood Schizophrenia

Colbert, Edward G.

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1959.03590060062006

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“…Similarly, Ornitz (1974) and Ornitz and Ritvo (1968) described autism as a syndrome of perceptual inconstancy, with motor output (like stimming) needed to modulate inconsistent sensory input. In support of this theory, autistic people have shown high behavioural and neurological variability to the same basic stimuli over time (Colbert, Koegler, & Markham, 1959; Haigh, 2018). Furthermore, more recent theories have suggested that stimming may provide familiar and reliable self-generated feedback in response to difficulties with unpredictable, overwhelming and novel circumstances (e.g.…”

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‘People should be allowed to do what they like’: Autistic adults’ views and experiences of stimming

Kapp

Steward

Crane

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Autism

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‘Stereotyped or repetitive motor movements’ are characterised as core features in the diagnosis of autism, yet many autistic adults (and the neurodiversity movement) have reclaimed them as ‘stimming’. Supported by a growing body of scientific research, autistic adults argue that these behaviours may serve as useful coping mechanisms, yet little research has examined stimming from the perspective of autistic adults. Through interviews and focus groups, we asked 32 autistic adults to share their perceptions and experiences of stimming, including the reasons they stim, any value doing so may hold for them and their perceptions of others’ reactions to stimming. Using thematic analysis, we identified two themes: stimming as (1) a self-regulatory mechanism and (2) lacking in social acceptance, but can become accepted through understanding. Autistic adults highlighted the importance of stimming as an adaptive mechanism that helps them to soothe or communicate intense emotions or thoughts and thus objected to treatment that aims to eliminate the behaviour.

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‘People should be allowed to do what they like’: Autistic adults’ views and experiences of stimming

Kapp

Steward

Crane

et al. 2019

Autism

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193

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“…The constancy of repetitive movement has been adduced as evidence in favour of an organic pathology in autism ( O m i t z & Ritvo (1968) ) . Colbert et al (1959) and Ornitz & Ritvo (1968) have reported highly significant abnormalities of vestibular response in autistic children, and these papers provide the only specific indicators to date that there is the possibility of an organic lesion in the dorsal brain stem in autistic children. Generalized clumsiness, rare long tract signs, and epilepsy cannot be accepted as position specific indicators of brain damage in these children.…”

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On the Nature of Infantile Autism

MacCulloch

Williams

1971

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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“…Several reports have proposed brainstem or midbrain dysfunction to be the underlying common pathology (McCulloch & Williams, 1971;. Abnormalities in vestibular nystagmus, visual vestibular interactions and eye movements during REM suggested to several researchers the existence of brainstem dysfunction (Pollack & Krieger, 1958;Colbert et al, 1959;Ritvo et al, 1969;, and Ornitz & Ritvo (1976) have argued that brainstem pathology could account for many of the constellation of symptoms that define autism. Simon (1975) suggested that damage to the brainstem auditory system could produce the stereotypic, abnormal language so characteristic in autistic children.…”

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Auditory Brainstem Response Abnormalities in Autistic Children

Taylor

Rosenblatt

Linschoten

1982

Can. j. neurol. sci.

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SUMMARY:In an attempt to clarify issues of brainstem dysfunction and hearing thresholds in autistic children, we studied the Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABRs) in 32 children who clearly fit within the criteria of autism established by the National Society for Autistic Children (1977). ABRs were recorded between Cz and ipsilateral ear in response to click stimuli. Interwave latencies and auditory threshold in each ear were determined. Of the 32 children, 11 had moderate hearing loss (8 bilaterally) and 3 had severe to profound hearing loss, all bilaterally. 8 of the 14 with hearing loss also had associated features (e.g., perinatal encephalopathy). The I-III andI-Vinterwave latencies were significantly longer in the autistic children compared to normal control children; the increased conduction times were found mainly in the early portion of the auditory brainstem pathway. These data confirm some earlier reports of ABR abnormalities in autistic children and are concordant with some theories of the etiological basis of autism. The high incidence of hearing loss in these children is significant and routine ABR testing is recommended.

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Vestibular Dysfunction in Childhood Schizophrenia

Cited by 58 publications

References 38 publications

‘People should be allowed to do what they like’: Autistic adults’ views and experiences of stimming

‘People should be allowed to do what they like’: Autistic adults’ views and experiences of stimming

On the Nature of Infantile Autism

Auditory Brainstem Response Abnormalities in Autistic Children

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