Repetitive behaviours in pervasive developmental disorders distinguishing core features from compulsions

Mental Health Aspects of Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 109-117

  King, Robert ^a   Fay, Garry ^a   Turcotte, Patti ^a   Wheildon, Heather ^a   Preston, Maggie ^a  

^a North Bay Psychiatric Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autism; Intellectual disability; Mental retardation; Obsessive compulsive; Pervasive developmental disorder; Psychiatric; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

BENZATROPINE MESILATE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CITALOPRAM; CLONIDINE; DIAZEPAM; FLUVOXAMINE; HALOPERIDOL; LITHIUM CARBONATE; LORAZEPAM; LOXAPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PROPRANOLOL; THIORIDAZINE; TRANQUILIZER; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; VALPROIC ACID;

AUTISM; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPULSION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NOMENCLATURE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT MONITORING; POLYDIPSIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATER INTOXICATION;

EID: 0036809406     PISSN: 10573291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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