Autism and Antiterrorism?
Some of the latest research on Autism being done in the ROAR lab (Research on Autism at Rutgers) is being done in hope that it can be a anti terrorism measure. The research headed by Maggie Shiffrar, investigating Autism on how it affects connections between visual analysis, body movement and our ability to interact. The ultimate goal of the project, which is receiving funding from the department of Homeland Security, is to create computer programs that train people to be able to pick out a terrorist in crowded public areas based on their movements.
Autism is a brain development disorder that impairs ones ability to interact socially, impairs communication and cause restrictive and repetitive behavior. This disease once considered rare is now prevalent in about 1 in every 150 births. According to Shiffrar everyone has autistic tendencies, it is just that most of us exhibit few of them. Her studies have shown that those with Autism identify the movement of people and objects equally, meaning that they see the world without emotion. While those who do not have Autism identify people over objects when given limited information. In her study Shiffrar fillmed the movemens of people, animal, and other objects by placing lights on the key joints. The research subject where then shown the tapes. The subject with Autism could not distinguish between people and the object, while the subjects without Autism easily identified the people from the objects.
It has been revealed that in people with Autism the connection between the amygdala, the portion of the brain that involved with emotion, and the portion that perceives movement is impaired. Shiffrar is focusing her research on determining if this impairment with their visual systme causes their problem with perception of peoples actions or if it is the fact that they isolate themselves form people and that leads to their lack of perception. This arcticle expains why everyone may not be diagnosed with autism, some people act differently in different situations. I think that with more research on this subject doctors in the future may be able to predict which people are going to become leaders or strong public figures from those who are just going to be part of the crowd.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124911.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism#Pathophysiology
Autism is a brain development disorder that impairs ones ability to interact socially, impairs communication and cause restrictive and repetitive behavior. This disease once considered rare is now prevalent in about 1 in every 150 births. According to Shiffrar everyone has autistic tendencies, it is just that most of us exhibit few of them. Her studies have shown that those with Autism identify the movement of people and objects equally, meaning that they see the world without emotion. While those who do not have Autism identify people over objects when given limited information. In her study Shiffrar fillmed the movemens of people, animal, and other objects by placing lights on the key joints. The research subject where then shown the tapes. The subject with Autism could not distinguish between people and the object, while the subjects without Autism easily identified the people from the objects.
It has been revealed that in people with Autism the connection between the amygdala, the portion of the brain that involved with emotion, and the portion that perceives movement is impaired. Shiffrar is focusing her research on determining if this impairment with their visual systme causes their problem with perception of peoples actions or if it is the fact that they isolate themselves form people and that leads to their lack of perception. This arcticle expains why everyone may not be diagnosed with autism, some people act differently in different situations. I think that with more research on this subject doctors in the future may be able to predict which people are going to become leaders or strong public figures from those who are just going to be part of the crowd.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124911.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism#Pathophysiology
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