Since many years the only advancements in autism research are descriptive trends: "diffuse development disorder", "spectrum" and now "multiple conditions". As l

Since many years the only advancements in autism research are descriptive trends: "diffuse development disorder", "spectrum" and now "multiple conditions". As long as these words refer to syndromes and not to mechanisms or causes, they will only be word fanciness. I suggest a change of the autism term to something like "idiopathic apsychia" (loss of soul, empathy disorder etc) which demonstrates a common causal base and can focus the attention to more meaningful academic research and public acknowledgement.