Current concepts: Autism

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 97-104

  Rapin, Isabelle ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSPIRONE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; CLONIDINE; CORTICOTROPIN; FLUOXETINE; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; MELATONIN; METHYLPHENIDATE; NALTREXONE; PEMOLINE; PIMOZIDE; PREDNISOLONE; PROPRANOLOL; SERTRALINE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIVER TOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; OBESITY; PARENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SLEEP DISORDER; TREATMENT PLANNING; XEROSTOMIA; ADULT; CHILD; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0031563047     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199707103370206     Document Type: Review

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