DISORDERS OF PERCEPTION COMMON TO EARLY INFANTILE AUTISM AND SCHIZOPHRENIA

The results of clinical, psychological, psychophysiological, and neurophysiological investigations have suggested that a break-down of the homeostatic regulation of sensory input occurs in early infantile autism and in schizophrenia. These investigations are reviewed and evaluated. It is concluded that a profound disturbance of perception is found in both autistic children and schizophrenic adults, and that this perceptual dysfunction may be common to and underlie the divergent clinical pathology present in these conditions. © 1969.