Written by Bokonon Abla Woli
Osa Oturupon speaks about an emotional disease that manifests through different mechanisms. First of all there is a scattered kinestesis. Kinestesis is characterized by the divergence of many information that come out simultaneously and overload the emotional field. In other words the autistic person is overloaded by a sum of countless kinestesis information that focus the conscious attention of the subject. These information may collect into some form of visual synesthesia, in particular the proprioceptive afferences. Proprioceptor are kinestesic receptors that are located into the joints and muscles and are able to inform the cerebellum on the static and dynamic positions of the entire body or specific muscolar groups. The cerebellum has become increasingly implicated in higher cognitive processes and executive function such as those employed in theory of mind through these fronto-cerebellar circuits thus changes in cerebellar structure provide a potential anatomical basis for a range of cognitive deficits that are observed in autism.
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