Autism Autonomy

In Search of Our Human Dignity

Elizabeth B. Torres (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

442 Seiten

2024
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-818809-5 (ISBN)

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Autism Autonomy: In Search of Our Human Dignity provides a new and unifying methodological framework and discusses machine learning and biometrics techniques to diagnose, characterize, and treat patterns of sensory motor control underlying autism symptoms. With the hope of improving basic research in these areas, this volume will allow readers to design better interventions and provide awareness of a number of new technologies used in the autism field. Wearable bio-sensing technologies, machine learning, and AI methods are all discussed regarding their applications to provide better self-awareness, interaction, diagnosis, and prognosis.

This volume is useful for researchers and clinicians interested in learning about these new technologies and how to enhance machine learning use in ASD for the betterment of patients.

Dr. Torres is a Computational Neuroscientist who has been working on theoretical and empirical aspects of sensory motor integration and human cognition since the late 90’s. She graduated from Mathematics and Computer Science and spent a year at the NIH as a Pre-IRTA fellow, applying her skill set to the medical field. This work led to Pre-doctoral-fellowship funding (5 years) of graduate school. During her PhD at UCSD, she developed a new theoretical framework for the study of sensory motor integration, employing elements of Differential (Riemannian) geometry and tensor calculus adapted from Contemporary Mechanics and Dynamics to the realm of Cognitive Neuroscience. Upon PhD completion, she moved to CALTECH to receive postdoctoral training in electrophysiology and Computational Neural Systems as a Sloan-Swartz Fellow, a Della Martin Fellow and a Neuroscience Scholar. In parallel, she translated her models to work with humans suffering from pathologies of the nervous systems and built a new platform for personalized analyses of human naturalistic behaviors. She joined Rutgers University in 2008 and deployed her new platform to work on neurodevelopmental disorders with a focus on issues with social interactions. Under an NSF Cyber Enabled Discovery Award, she then launched a transformative research program in autism seeking to build synergies with industry, funded by the NSF Innovation Corps initiative. She filed four patent technologies and with the generous funding of the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation and the New Jersey Governor’s Council for the treatment and research of autism, she extended the new platform to study natural dyadic and social behaviors in general. Her lab’s vision has paved the way to seek new frontiers in personalized mobile-Health, dynamic diagnostics systems and new objectively-driven drug development for clinical trials. The overarching goal of her group is to create the means to quantify and track improvements in the person’s quality of life. Photo credit - Roy Groething. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e27da3rxnMg

1. Introduction: The Super Systems and Human Neurodevelopment
2. From Pavlov to Skinner to Applied Behavioral Analyses: In Search of a New Cognitive Revolution Using AI, Open Data Science, and Machine Learning
3. How Babies Attain Volitional Control
4. Screening and Diagnosing Autism
5. The Autistic Experience Revealed through Digital Phenotyping
6. Autistic Adults
7. Building Autonomy to Regain our Agency in Science
8. The Future Generation Got This
9. Conclusions
Glossary

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2024
Verlagsort	San Diego
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	0-12-818809-X / 012818809X
ISBN-13	978-0-12-818809-5 / 9780128188095
Zustand	Neuware