Autistic Disorder - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Identifying stimuli that alter immediate and subsequent levels of vocal stereotypy: a further analysis of functionally matched stimulation.

30 Aug 2009 We used a three-component multiple-schedule with a brief reversal design to evaluate the effects of structurally unmatched and matched stimuli on immediate and subsequent vocal stereotypy that was displayed by three children with autism spectrum ... Read more...

Helping families for caring children with autistic spectrum disorders.

30 Aug 2009 Many families are directly involved in caring of their children with the lifelong autistic spectrum disorders. Sometimes, they are the victims of their children's behaviors. The family, including siblings, may have to explain the children's ... 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 - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Autism: the other side learns to accept it] 14 Oct 2009
• Journal club. A biologist praises a mouse model of autism inheritance. 22 Sep 2009
• Identifying stimuli that alter immediate and subsequent levels of vocal stereotypy: a further analysis of functionally matched stimulation. 30 Aug 2009
• Helping families for caring children with autistic spectrum disorders. 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
• Child neurology: autism as a model: considerations for advanced training in behavioral child neurology. 30 Aug 2009
• Varieties of altruism in children and chimpanzees. 25 Aug 2009
• Overlap with the autism spectrum in young children with Williams syndrome. 30 Jul 2009
• Using conversation analysis to explore the recurrence of a topic in the talk of a boy with an autism spectrum disorder. 30 Jul 2009
• Communicative acts of children with autism spectrum disorders in the second year of life. 25 Jul 2009
• Relationship between cingulo-insular functional connectivity and autistic traits in neurotypical adults. 13 Jul 2009
• Representation of internal models of action in the autistic brain. 3 Jul 2009
• Autism is characterized by dorsal anterior cingulate hyperactivation during social target detection. 30 Jun 2009
• The effects of a gluten and casein-free diet in children with autism: a case report. 29 Jun 2009
• Collaborative approach to autism: a parent's perspective. 29 Jun 2009
• Parenting stress in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorders. 29 Jun 2009
• Autism spectrum disorders: navigating in uncharted waters. 29 Jun 2009
• Brainstem transcription of speech is disrupted in children with autism spectrum disorders. 29 Jun 2009
• Slow echo: facial EMG evidence for the delay of spontaneous, but not voluntary, emotional mimicry in children with autism spectrum disorders. 29 Jun 2009
• Conceptualizing autism: the role for emergence. 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)