Rutter M
Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London, England.
J Autism Dev Disord. 1996 Apr;26(2):257-75. doi: 10.1007/BF02172023.
Research prospects and priorities in the field of autism are discussed with respect to (a) diagnosis, classification, and epidemiology; (b) clinical research; (c) neuropsychological research; (d) genetics; (e) structural and functional brain imaging; (f) postmortem studies; (g) other biological research; and (h) treatment research. Also, it is argued that research into autism has a priority in the broader field of developmental psychopathology because it carries the promise of throwing light on casual mechanisms that apply beyond the syndrome of autism.
（a）诊断、分类和流行病学；（b）临床研究；（c）神经心理学研究；（d）遗传学；（e）大脑结构和功能成像；（f）尸检研究；（g）其他生物学研究；（h）治疗研究。此外，本文认为，自闭症研究在更广泛的发展性精神病理学领域具有优先地位，因为它有望揭示适用于自闭症综合征之外的因果机制。
