11. Mental dysfunction

11. Mental dysfunction

The brain can become dysfunctional when the biochemical system is disrupted. In scientific terms, we would say that temporospatial processing disorders (DTTS) have occurred. It is important to understand that many of these disorders concern the time and space in which we make observations that are misinterpreted. I will give a few examples here, and later describe the full list of 27 disorders I have observed in AS people. An article on Cairn.info by Bruno Gepner of the University of Aix-en-Provence helped me complete these observations.

Some examples: disorders in processing visual motion, perceiving lip movements (movements of the lips), and facial/bodily emotions. Here we are already well within the difficulties of ASD.

Visual proprioceptive disorders (perception of one's body and objects in space). Cognitive disorders (failure to register perception, memorisation, reasoning, emotions: physiological/neurological origin). Eye-contact disorders and disorganised speech.

It is not always something lasting; it can be short-lived.

I present a recent example from neurobiology here. The myth that dopamine only provides pleasure after effort is now the subject of much debate. Thanks to researchers' sustained attention, a new role for this molecule has been revealed. Dopamine records events occurring in the brain and sorts them at the moment of this recording. In the context of autism, this mechanism could lead to various disorders, such as recording incorrect information, misinterpretations, or even the appearance of positive schizophrenia symptoms. This phenomenon could also be linked to other dysfunctions listed in DTTS. However, observations show that, fortunately, this effect is not permanent.