Autism spectrum disorders: Clinical and research frontiers

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 518-523

  Caronna, E B ^a,b   Milunsky, J M ^a   Tager Flusberg, H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL STUDY; GENETICS; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; NEUROSCIENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIBLING; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); NEUROSCIENCES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 45549104497     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.115337     Document Type: Review

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