講者：林祥源醫師
講題：The Autistic Brain: From Heterogeneity To Idiosyncrasy
時間：2025年7月14日（一） 10:10-12:00
地點：政治大學果夫樓101教室
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演講大綱：
Autism spectrum encompasses profound heterogeneity that has led to the unfulfilled promise of subtyping and has hindered the search for unifying mechanisms. We argue that the field’s focus on eliminating this variability is a category error. We propose a fundamental reframing, elevating idiosyncrasy—stable, person-specific neural, cognitive, and behavioral patterns—from statistical noise to the core signal to be understood. Our perspective offers a new synthesis, detailing a generative model where idiosyncrasy emerges from path-dependent developmental processes shaped by an individual’s unique genetic and environmental landscape. This framework explains why group-average approaches are often inconclusive and necessitates a shift toward individual-level, non-Gaussian analytical tools. Embracing idiosyncrasy as a hallmark of autism can resolve long-standing paradoxes, advance research, foster personalized support, and bridge the gap between biomedical science and the neurodiversity movement.
講者簡介：
林祥源醫師現任加拿大多倫多大學Temerty醫學院精神醫學部助理教授暨臨床研究員，提供醫學生、住院醫師與臨床研究員之教學與督導工作。同時擔任多倫多成癮與心理健康中心（CAMH）成人神經發展中心臨床科學家及成人神經發展與老年精神醫學部主治精神科醫師，提供成人神經發展障礙個案之門診醫療服務，並主持多項研究計畫，聚焦於自閉症、智能障礙及其伴隨之心理健康狀況等議題。
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