Childhood autism: The need for physical investigations

Brain and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 227-233

  Skjeldal, Ola H ^a   Sponheim, Eili ^b   Ganes, Trond ^a   Jellum, Egil ^a   Bakke, Søren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Sogn Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry   (Norway)

Author keywords

Childhood autism; Medical tests; Physical assessment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HEARING; HUMAN; IMAGING; MACROCEPHALY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; METABOLISM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; TENDON REFLEX; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 0032053105     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(98)00031-X     Document Type: Article

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