--- abstract: "Jones and Klin (1) showed that newborns who will later develop autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) pay normal attention to eyes, but that attention declines from 2-6 months. This shows, they say, how 'initial genotypic vulnerabilities' cause ASDs. Their results suggest, however, that ASDs are caused by insufficient practice of early eye-contact." altloc: - http://www.jungny.com/carl.jung.335.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ' Jones, W. & Klin, A. Attention to eyes is present but in decline in 2–6-month-old infants later diagnosed with autism. Nature doi:10.1038/nature12715 (2013)' confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - maxmcdowell@jungny.com creators_name: - family: McDowell given: Maxson J honourific: Dr lineage: '' date: 2013-10 date_type: submitted datestamp: 2014-02-25 12:39:56 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/91/32 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Dhand given: Ritu honourific: Dr lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 9132 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/9132/1/carl.jung.335a.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: unpub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: ~ item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'newborn, eye contact, autism spectrum disorders, direct cause, mother-infant pair' lastmod: 2014-02-25 12:39:56 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: Nature Brief communication arising publisher: Macmillan refereed: FALSE referencetext: "1. Jones, W. & Klin, A. Attention to eyes is present but in decline in 2–6-month-old infants later diagnosed with autism. Nature doi:10.1038/nature12715 (2013)\r\n\r\n2. Novella, S. Evidence in medicine: correlation and causation. Science-Based Medicine. sciencebasedmedicine.org Posted Nov 18 (2009)\r\n\r\n3. Abrahams, B. S. & Geschwind, D. H. Advances in autism genetics: on the threshold of a new neurobiology. Nature Rev. Genet. 9, 341-355 (2008)\r\n\r\n4. McDowell, M. J. Autism's direct cause? Failure of infant-mother eye contact in a complex adaptive system. Biological Theory 5(4), 344-356 (2011). Also at: http://cogprints.org/9124/\r\n\r\n5. State, M. W. & Sestan, N. Neuroscience: the emerging biology of autism spectrum disorders. Science 337, 1301–1303 (2012)\r\n\r\n6. Klin, A., Jones, W., Schultz, R.T., Volkmar, F.R. The enactive mind – from actions to cognition: lessons from autism. Phil. Trans. R. Soc., Bio. Sci. 358, 345-360 (2003)\r\n\r\n7. McDowell, M. J. Autism, early narcissistic injury and self-organization: a role for the image of the mother's eyes? J. Analyt. Psychol. 49(4), 495-520 (2004)\r\n\r\n8. Waldman, M., Nicholson, N. A., & Williams, J. Autism prevalence and precipitation rates in California, Oregon, and Washington counties. Arch. Ped. Adol. Med. 162(11), 1026-34 (2008)" relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 11 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2014-02-25 12:39:56 subjects: - behav-neuro-sci - bio-theory - dev-psy succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Autism spectrum disorders: A relational cause' type: other userid: 958 volume: ~