Autistic Disorder - Diagnosis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Behavior predictors of language development over 2 years in children with autism spectrum disorders.

29 Sep 2009 PURPOSE: This exploratory study examined predictive relationships between 5 types of behaviors and the trajectories of vocabulary and language development in young children with autism over 2 years. METHOD: Participants were 69 children with autism ... Read more...

Autism and aging: hardly out of the woods.

30 Aug 2009 Leo Kanner first described autism in 1943, but it took the America Psychiatric Association almost 40 years to recognize it officially in 1980. It is one of five diverse pervasive developmental disorders grouped under the diagnostic category of ... Read more...

Gaze behavior and affect at 6 months: predicting clinical outcomes and language development in typically developing infants and infants at risk for autism.

30 Aug 2009 This paper presents follow-up longitudinal data to research that previously suggested the possibility of abnormal gaze behavior marked by decreased eye contact in a subgroup of 6-month-old infants at risk for autism (Merin, Young, Ozonoff & Rogers, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Autistic Disorder - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Drug fails to subdue repetitive behavior in children with autism spectrum disorders. 29 Sep 2009
• Behavior predictors of language development over 2 years in children with autism spectrum disorders. 29 Sep 2009
• Autism and aging: hardly out of the woods. 30 Aug 2009
• Gaze behavior and affect at 6 months: predicting clinical outcomes and language development in typically developing infants and infants at risk for autism. 30 Aug 2009
• Recurrent rearrangements in synaptic and neurodevelopmental genes and shared biologic pathways in schizophrenia, autism, and mental retardation. 30 Aug 2009
• Neurexin 1 (NRXN1) deletions in schizophrenia. 10 Aug 2009
• Overlap with the autism spectrum in young children with Williams syndrome. 30 Jul 2009
• CSWS-related autistic regression versus autistic regression without CSWS. 30 Jul 2009
• Neural correlates of autistic traits in the general population: insights into autism. 30 Jul 2009
• Autism and the gut. 25 Jul 2009
• Incidence of gastrointestinal symptoms in children with autism: a population-based study. 25 Jul 2009
• Neuroanatomic alterations and social and communication deficits in monozygotic twins discordant for autism disorder. 13 Jul 2009
• [Severe neuropsychiatric disorders in an asthmatic infant who received repeated glucocorticoid treatment: the importance of associated factors] Jul 2009
• Autism is characterized by dorsal anterior cingulate hyperactivation during social target detection. 30 Jun 2009
• Collaborative approach to autism: a parent's perspective. 29 Jun 2009
• Supporting families of children with autism spectrum disorders: questions parents ask and what nurses need to know. 29 Jun 2009
• The power and promise of identifying autism early: insights from the search for clinical and biological markers. 29 Jun 2009
• Conceptualizing autism: the role for emergence. 29 Jun 2009
• Simultaneous analysis of the behavioural phenotype, physical factors, and parenting stress in people with Cornelia de Lange syndrome. 29 Jun 2009
• Autism spectrum disorders in young children. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Autistic Disorder'

Definition: A disorder beginning in childhood. It is marked by the presence of markedly abnormal or impaired development in social interaction and communication and a markedly restricted repertoire of activity and interest. Manifestations of the disorder vary greatly depending on the developmental level and chronological age of the individual. (DSM-IV)

Descriptor UI: D001321

Alternative terms: Autistic Disorder; Disorder, Autistic; Disorders, Autistic; Autism, Early Infantile; Early Infantile Autism; Infantile Autism, Early; Kanner's Syndrome; Kanner Syndrome; Kanners Syndrome; Syndrome, Kanner's; Autism; Autisms; Autism, Infantile; Infantile Autism;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.550.325.125;

Online Note: use AUTISM, INFANTILE to search AUTISM, EARLY INFANTILE 1971-80; use SCHIZOPHRENIA, CHILDHOOD 1968-70

History Note: 1981(1966)