Head circumference in autism and other pervasive developmental disorders

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 665-671

  Woodhouse, Wendy ^a   Bailey, Anthony ^b   Rutter, Michael ^b   Bolton, Patrick ^c   Baird, Gillian ^d   Le Couteur, Ann ^e  

^a Child and Family Guidance Clinic   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e Fleming Nuffield Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Head circumference; Macrocephaly; Pervasive developmental disorder

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANTILE AUTISM; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MACROCEPHALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

EID: 0029778284     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01458.x     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Bailey, A., Luthert, P., Bolton, P., Le Couteur, A., Rutter, M. & Harding, B. (1993). Autism and megalencephaly. (Letter) The Lancet, 341, 1225-1226.
2. Bailey, A., Le Couteur, A., Gottesman, I., Bolton, P., Simonoff, E., Yuzda E. & Rutter, M. (1995). Autism as a strongly genetic disorder: evidence from a British twin study. Psychological Medicine, 25, 63-77.
3. Bailey, A., Luthert, P., Harding, B., Janota, I., Montgomery, M., Dean, A., Rutter, M. & Lantos, P. A clinicopathological study of autism (Submitted).
4. Bartko, J. J. and Carpenter, W. T. (1976). On methods and theory of reliability. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 163, 307-317.
5. Bishop, D. V. M. (1989). Autism, Asperger's syndrome and semantic-pragmatic disorder: where are the boundaries? British Journal of Communication, 24, 107-121.
6. Bishop, D. V. M. & Rosenbloom, L. (1987). Classification of childhood language disorders. In W. Yule & M. Rutter (Eds), Language development and disorders. Clinics in Developmental Medicine (double issue), Vol. 101-2. (pp. 16-41). London: MacKeith Press.
7. Bolton, P. & Rutter, M. (1990). Genetic influences in autism. International Review of Psychiatry, 2, 67-80.
8. Bolton, P., MacDonald, H., Pickles, A., Rios, P., Goode, S., Crowson, M., Bailey, A. & Rutter, M. (1994). A case-control family history study of autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 35, 877-900.
9. Cole, I. R. & Hughes, H. E. (1991). Autosomal dominant macrocephaly: benign familial macrocephaly or a new syndrome? American Journal of Medical Genetics, 41, 115-124.
10. Filipek, P. A., Richelme, C., Kennedy, D. N., Rademaker, J., Pitcher, D. A., Zidel, S. & Caviness, V. S. (1992). Morphometric analysis of the brain in developmental language disorder and autism. (Abstract.) Annals of Neurology, 32, 475.
11. Hauser, S., Delong, G. & Rosman, N. (1975). Pneumoence-phalographic findings in infantile autism: a correlation with temporal lobe disease. Brain, 98, 667-688.
12. Kanner, L. (1943). Autistic disturbance of affective contact. Nervous Child, 2, 217-257.
13. Kemper, T. L. & Bauman, M. L. (1993). The contribution of neuropathologic studies to the understanding of autism. Neurologic Clinics 11, 175-187.
14. Le Couleur, A., Rutter, M., Lord, C., Rios, P., Robertson, S., Holdgrafer, M. & McLennan, J. (1989). Autism diagnostic interview. A standardized investigator based instrument. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 19, 363-387.
15. Lorber, J. & Priestly, B. L. (1981). Children with large heads: a practical approach to diagnosis. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 23, 494-504.
16. Morrow, J. D., Whitman, B. Y. & Accardo, P. J. (1990). Autistic disorder in Soto's syndrome: a case report. European Journal of Paediatrics, 149, 567-569.
17. Ounsted, M., Moar, V. A. & Scott, A. (1985). Head circumference charts updated. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 60, 936-939.
18. Piven, J., Arndt, S., Bailey, J., Havercamp, S., Andreasen, N. & Palmer, P. (1995). An MRI study of brain size in autism. American Journal of Psychiatry, 152, 1145-1149.
19. Robinson, R. J. (1991). Causes and associations of severe and persistent specific speech and language disorder in children. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 33, 943-962.
20. Rutter, M., Bailey, A., Bolton, P. & Le Couteur, A. (1994). Autism and known medical conditions: myth and substance. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 35, 311-322.
21. Rutter, S. C. & Cole, T. R. (1991). Psychological characteristics of Soto's syndrome. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 33, 898-902.
22. Smalley, S., Asarnow, R. & Spence, M. (1988). Autism and genetics: a decade of research. Archives of General Psychiatry, 45, 953-961.
23. Tanner, J. M. (1978) Boys: birth-16 years: head circumference. Welwyn Garden City, Herts: Castlemead Publications.
24. Tanner, J. M. (1978). Girls: birth-16 years: head circumference. Welwyn Garden City, Herts: Castlemead Publications.
25. Wing, L. (1976). Diagnosis, clinical description and prognosis. In L. Wing (Ed.), Early childhood autism, 2nd edn (pp. 25-30). Oxford: Pergamon Press.
26. World Health Organization (1992). The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders: clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines. Geneva: World Health Organization.
27. Zapella, M. (1990). Autistic features in children affected by cerebral gigantism. Brain Dysfunction, 3, 241-244.