There is a simple answer to your question about an isolated gene --- no!

At 06:18 PM 3/24/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >From: Robert Galatzer-Levy <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: Psychoanalysis <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Asperger's Syndrome
> >Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:01:20 -0600
> >
> >Both autism and Asperger's syndrome are pervasive developmental disorders.
> >The separation of Asperger's from autism is a matter of controversy since
> >they share many core features though Asperger's patients function much
> >better cognitively, communicate better and generally do not have CNS
> >signs.>Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, M.D.            Telephone 312 922 5077
> >122 South Michigan Avenue                 Fax 312 922 5084
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>Dear Dr. Galatzer-Levy:
>I just received an email from a Tommy Jonsson that said this: "Do not haste
>away with this!  Take a lot of time, be "critical" about any simplification
>and make sure we speak about the same phenomena, for instance when we
>mention trauma!"  I thought, oh my god, he thinks I'm one of those
>knitted-brow Barbara Walters types who think all mental illness is caused by
>incest.  I can't stand it.  I want to assure everyone that all I had in mind
>was the primal scene.  After an infant sees that he still wants to be loved
>by his parents, but since love is such a horrible thing he does NOT wish to
>be loved by his parents.  The frail infantile ego can't handle such
>conflicts so he represses them into a part of the brain that can fulfill
>conflicting wishes simultaneously.  He then grows up in the habit of
>inadvertently offending potential love objects.  The main thing I wanted to
>know from practicing psychoanalysts was if the damned pop psychologists had
>any basis for their new belief that a gene has been isolated that causes AS.
>
>Respectfully,
>
>
>Larry
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