The authors define infantile autism, giving its time of manifestation, clinical development, differential diagnosis, management, and treatment. They hypothesize that the cause of autism probably will not be found in some consistent gross alteration in brain size or gross structure but that autistic children have some generalized deficit of neurologic function that is common to most or all cerebral neurons.
作者对婴儿自闭症进行了定义，阐述了其表现时间、临床发展、鉴别诊断、管理及治疗方法。他们推测，自闭症的病因可能并非在于大脑大小或总体结构的某些一致的明显改变，而是自闭症儿童存在某种大多数或所有大脑神经元共有的一般性神经功能缺陷。
