**Meet the editor**

Michael Fitzgerald was the first Professor of Child Psychiatry in Ireland at Trinity College Dublin. He trained at Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago and Maudsley Hospital, London. He continues to practice in Child and Adult Psychiatry and carries out research on autism and it's co-morbidities. He has diagnosed over 2,500 persons with ASD in the past 40 years. He is on the editorial

board of a number of journals and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals as well as written, edited or co-edited 20 books.

Contents

**Preface IX**

**Section 1 Prevalence and Diagnosis 1**

**What We Do 3**

**Circuitry 61**

Stephen A. Bustin

**"Over-Matching" 99**

Chapter 2 **Indicators of Autism in Iranian Children 29** Sayyed Ali Samadi and Roy McConkey

Tomislav Benjak and Gorka Vuletić

**Section 2 Aetiological Factors - General Overview 59**

Chapter 6 **Vaccine Safety Study as an Interesting Case of**

M. Catherine DeSoto and Robert T. Hitlan

Chapter 1 **Promoting Early Identification of Autism in the Primary Care**

Chapter 3 **Prevalence of Pervasive Developmental Disorders – Croatia in Comparison with Other Countries of the World 49**

Chapter 4 **Gut Microbiome and Brain-Gut Axis in Autism — Aberrant**

Elizabeth M. Sajdel-Sulkowska and Romuald Zabielski

Chapter 5 **Why There Is no Link Between Measles Virus and Autism 81**

**Development of Gut-Brain Communication and Reward**

**Setting: Bridging the Gap Between What We Know and**

Michael Siller, Lindee Morgan, Meghan Swanson and Emily Hotez
