Repetitive and Restricted Behaviors and Interests in Autism Spectrum Disorders: From Neurobiology to Behavior
暫譯: 自閉症譜系障礙中的重複性與限制性行為及興趣：從神經生物學到行為

本卷探討影響自閉症譜系障礙（ASD）個體的重複性和限制性行為及興趣（RRBIs）。由國際專家團隊回顧了RRBIs的各個方面，這是一個涵蓋由重複性、剛性、不變性和不適當性（在地點和情境上）所連結的廣泛行為類別的總稱。

主要涵蓋的主題包括：
- 重複行為的神經機制：動物和人類模型
- 在典型和非典型發展中RRB的潛在機制
- RRBI與ASD其他特徵（溝通、社交、感官方面）之間的關係
- RRBIs與ASD成人
- RRBIs的診斷
- 一個RRBI介入模型

本書彌合了與RRBIs及其行為方面相關的神經生物學和神經認知知識體之間的差距，並檢視其與ASD其他領域的關聯。此外，本卷還探討了ASD中RRBI的相關評估和治療。這是發展心理學、行為療法/康復、社會工作、臨床兒童與學校心理學、兒童與青少年精神醫學、兒科、職業治療和特殊教育領域的研究人員、研究生、臨床醫生及相關治療師和專業人士的重要資源。

Eynat Gal, Ph.D., is an occupational therapist specializing in the area of developmental disabilities and specifically in Autism spectrum disorders. She received her Ph.D., completing her doctoral dissertation, "An investigation of the relationship of sensory differences and intellectual level to stereotyped and self-injurious movements in children" in 2006. She received IMFAR's "Best Autism Dissertation Award" for this work in 2007. She is a faculty member of the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Haifa, Israel, where she is the head of the Masters program. Her research focuses on the investigation of underlying mechanisms that stand at the base of autistic behaviors, such as sensory and social deficits as well as functional aspects of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other developmental disabilities. She has developed several instruments for assessing developmental disorders, including a tool for assessing sensory processing disorders, vocational assessments to enable people with disabilities to participate in jobs according to their abilities, and an assessment for eating problems and patterns of children with ASD. She co-leads the Laboratory of Autism Research at the University of Haifa. Research funding has been received from Cure Autism Now, Autism Speaks Foundation, the EU, and various Israeli foundations. She is the adviser of masters- and doctorate-level students who currently investigate various aspects of repetitive and restrictive behaviors and interests (RRBI) in ASD. She publishes widely on developmental disabilities as ASD, including a book chapter on restricted behaviors and interests in ASD in the International Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Johnny L. Matson and Peter Sturmey, editors (Springer, 2011).

NuritYirmiya, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in Developmental and Clinical Psychology from UCLA and is currently a Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she served as the Chairperson of the Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies and as Dean of Students. She is internationally known for her research in the field of autism, especially regarding the very early prodrome of autism. Professor Yirmiya served as the Associate Editor of the prestigious Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry as well as on many national and international committees. She has published more than 100 papers and co-edited 2 books as well as special issues in leading journals. From 2014 to 2016, she served as the Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space in Israel, responsible for R&D policy making and funding of the Ministry on national and international levels. She also served as the chairperson of the Israeli National Council for the Advancement of Women in Science and Technology as well as a board member of the United-States Israel Binational Science Foundation and the acting co-chair of the German-Israel Foundation for Scientific Research and Development.

Eynat Gal 博士是一位職業治療師，專門研究發展性障礙，特別是自閉症譜系障礙。她於2006年獲得博士學位，完成了博士論文《感官差異與智力水平對兒童刻板行為和自我傷害行為的關係調查》。因這項研究，她於2007年獲得IMFAR的「最佳自閉症論文獎」。她是以色列海法大學職業治療系的教職員，並擔任碩士課程的負責人。她的研究重點在於調查自閉症行為背後的基本機制，例如感官和社交缺陷，以及自閉症譜系障礙（ASD）和其他發展性障礙的功能性方面。她開發了幾種評估發展性障礙的工具，包括用於評估感官處理障礙的工具、職業評估以使殘障人士根據其能力參與工作，以及針對ASD兒童的飲食問題和模式的評估。她共同領導海法大學的自閉症研究實驗室。她的研究獲得了Cure Autism Now、Autism Speaks Foundation、歐盟及各種以色列基金會的資助。她是目前研究ASD中重複和限制性行為及興趣（RRBI）各個方面的碩士和博士生的指導老師。她在發展性障礙（如ASD）方面廣泛發表文章，包括在《國際自閉症與廣泛性發展障礙手冊》中關於ASD中限制性行為和興趣的書章，編輯為Johnny L. Matson和Peter Sturmey（Springer, 2011）。

Nurit Yirmiya 博士在加州大學洛杉磯分校（UCLA）獲得發展與臨床心理學博士學位，目前是耶路撒冷希伯來大學的心理學教授，曾擔任Lafer婦女與性別研究中心的主任及學生事務院長。她因在自閉症領域的研究而享有國際聲譽，特別是關於自閉症的早期前驅症狀。Yirmiya教授曾擔任著名的《兒童心理學與精神病學期刊》的副編輯，並參與多個國內外委員會。她已發表超過100篇論文，並共同編輯了2本書及多個領先期刊的特刊。從2014年到2016年，她擔任以色列科學、技術與太空部的首席科學家，負責該部門的研發政策制定及國內外資金的分配。她還曾擔任以色列科學與技術促進婦女國家委員會的主席，以及美國以色列雙邊科學基金會的董事會成員，並擔任德以科學研究與發展基金會的共同主席。