Vulnerability to Ideologically-Motivated Violence Among Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder

People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are represented among those who espouse extremist thought and have committed violent acts associated with their beliefs. Media often highlight a perpetrator's psychiatric diagnosis following acts of mass violence, which in some instances has included A...

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Autores principales: Woodbury-Smith, Marc R., Loftin, Rachel, Westphal, Alexander, Volkmar, Fred R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Psychiatry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8990964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35401260
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.873121
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description People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are represented among those who espouse extremist thought and have committed violent acts associated with their beliefs. Media often highlight a perpetrator's psychiatric diagnosis following acts of mass violence, which in some instances has included ASD. ASD may itself not provide useful information for understanding motivations. Instead, understanding specific traits and neuropsychological and other vulnerabilities may offer an opportunity to make sense of these very complex events.
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spelling pubmed-89909642022-04-09 Vulnerability to Ideologically-Motivated Violence Among Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder Woodbury-Smith, Marc R. Loftin, Rachel Westphal, Alexander Volkmar, Fred R. Front Psychiatry Psychiatry People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are represented among those who espouse extremist thought and have committed violent acts associated with their beliefs. Media often highlight a perpetrator's psychiatric diagnosis following acts of mass violence, which in some instances has included ASD. ASD may itself not provide useful information for understanding motivations. Instead, understanding specific traits and neuropsychological and other vulnerabilities may offer an opportunity to make sense of these very complex events. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8990964/ /pubmed/35401260 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.873121 Text en Copyright © 2022 Woodbury-Smith, Loftin, Westphal and Volkmar. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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