Eating and feeding difficulties in patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Four cases

Mental Health Aspects of Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 114-119

  Galluchi, Gerard ^a   Andersen, Arnold E ^b   Hackerman, Florence ^a   Mondimore, Francis M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental disability; Eating disorders; Intellectual disability; Mental retardation; Pica; Prader Willi syndrome; Psychiatric disorder; Rumination

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CISAPRIDE; FLUOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; PAROXETINE; PROKINETIC AGENT; QUETIAPINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; THIORIDAZINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BULIMIA; CALORIC INTAKE; CASE REPORT; COMPULSION; DENTAL CARE; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EATING DISORDER; EXERCISE; EXHAUSTION; FEEDING DISORDER; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOOD DISORDER; OVERNUTRITION; PICA; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; SEIZURE; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

EID: 0042415422     PISSN: 10573291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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