Dr. Swedo said the plan was to define autism by two core elements — impaired social communication and repetitive behaviors or fixated interests — and to score each of those elements for severity.
For example, clinicians should screen for early history of language delays (not required for all autism spectrum disorders) or stereotyped/idiosyncratic language use, difficulties establishing/maintaining social interactions, problems reading social cues/non-verbal behavior, stereotyped movements, fixated interests or atypical preoccupations (e.g., parts of a washing machine).
For each participant, we calculated the time that they fixated (fixation duration) and the number of fixations (fixation frequency) on the following areas of interests (AOIs): the eyes, the nose, and the mouth.
In both chess tasks novices fixated objects of interest more often directly than experts (main effect expertise – F 1, 9) = 7.4, p<.05).
But traders like Brian Finnerty, head of trading at C.E. Unterburg Towbin, says that investors are still fixated on earnings and interest rates, and that could keep the stock market wavering.
Bob Filner, a longtime congressman, ran as a champion of city neighborhoods, which always got short shrift from a government fixated on downtown business interests.
Investors, traders, savers and homebuyers - young and old - were fixated on last week's Federal Reserve interest rate announcement, especially in the wake of recent market volatility.
Bugliosi, on the other hand, has remained a real and tangible person, and a key point of interest for those fixated on the national Manson nightmare.
This move, strengthens the hand of those actors who claim that the Trump administration continues to be fixated on pursuing its own interests in the region at the expense of all others, without much regard for sustainable peace or diplomacy.
But what's most notable about Mistress America is that it's firstly a story about female friendship and, mark this down, one that isn't solely fixated on discussing male love interests.
As an eater, too, he fixated on a single object of interest and lost sight of much else.
