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That would be Temple Grandin, I suspect. She claims to have been diagnosed
with autism, but given her age, that seems suspect. The disorder was first
named in only 1943. In any case, Grandin's research is in veterinary
medicine and her major area is calming animals in slaughter houses so they
don't squirt stress hormones into the meat. She says she used to enjoy
sitting in a cattle ramp that held her tight on both sides. I have not seen
her remarks about dogs, but that sounds like something she might say.
However, dogs are both auditory and olfactory sensitive, less so vision, and
vision is a modality that human autistics seem to prefer. Also, dogs are as
social as humans, which is why they can form social kinship bonds with us.
They can speak to us with their eyes, and they smile at us as they gaze at
our faces to read our intentions in our eyes and mouth. That's why we love
them and work with them in synchrony. In my life, I've about always had a
dog. A psychologist, John Fentriss is his name, up in Nova Scotia, actually
joined a wolf pack and learned the language of the pack so that the could
join them on a hunt. It took him a while to be accepted, but he was
eventually. This was in the early 70s and he did write about it. He also
writes about emotions in animals
(http://www.culture-of-peace.info/bbs/comment11-33.html). I can't locate a
reference for it just now, but it seems he has shifted to behavior genetics
in recent years (an abstract of his later work is below):
E35 Profiling Movement Patterns in the Development of Neurological Mutant
Mice
John C. Fentress. Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia) and University of
Oregon (Eugene)
Neurological mutant mice provide an incompletely explored opportunity to
link genotypes and phenotypes at a variety of levels of organization. In
this presentation I focus upon the developmental organization of movement
patterns in several strains, with particular emphasis on Weaver, Staggerer,
and Jimpy animals. We examine patterns of motor coordination in mutant and
control mice from postnatal day one through a series of standardized tests
(swimming, grooming, exploration). Our first goal is to seek rules by which
individual components of action are differentiated, and then integrated into
more complex patterns of expression. To do this, video records of the mice
are examined on a frame by frame basis with the aid of computer programs
that allow us to examine kinematic details of individual limb segments
through protracted action sequences. We are seeking ways to dissect levels
of organization. For example, Jimpy mice have disorders that appear to
involve the operation of spinal oscillators, Staggerer mice have problems
with movement form, and Weaver mice have problems with the sequential
ordering of actions.
There is obviously a long and treacherous road from genotype and phenotype
in these animals, and we are thus seeking ways to combine experimental
manipulations in both control and mutant animals to bring our analyses
closer to the level of circuit operations within the nervous system.
Although some progress has been made along these lines, much of the
interpretation remains ambiguous. My goal in attending this conference is to
learn more about mutant strains, transgenics, and knockouts that might be
employed in future studies. In this sense I am a student, at the mercy of
other conference participants. It is clear that future progress will depend
upon behavioral analyses that are as precise as those pursued at the
cellular and molecular levels. At the present time the literature in this
regard remains disappointing. I hope to show some ways where future progress
might be made.
James A. Mulick, Ph.D.
Professor, Pediatrics & Psychology
The Ohio State University
Developmental Assessment Program
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Dr. Mulick:
Are you familiar with the doctor who finds a similarity between dogs and
people who are autistic. She is a Ph.D and also is autism. I am not familiar
with the study or her work but I have it on my list to check it
out. Do you know anything about it?
Hank
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> Fortunately, humans and all other species evolved on the same planet.
> That means there are mant similarities.
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> James A. Mulick, Ph.D.
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