Article: A brain system that appears to compensate for autis

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Summary: “Individuals with five neurodevelopmental disorders -- autism spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, dyslexia, and Specific Language Impairment -- appear to compensate for dysfunction by relying on a single powerful and nimble system in the brain known as declarative memory.”

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During my evaluation, the clinical psychologist administered the Advanced Clinical Solutions (ACS) – Social Cognition test. I actually scored OK on these tests. But apparently, I lacked “automaticity”. Instead, the clinical psychologist described some sort of rule-based “mental decision tree” I used to determine which emotion was being conveyed. How did she know? Well, apparently, I have this tendency to "verbally mediate tasks".