Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Conceptual Issues

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Fifth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 32-41

  Bishop, Dorothy ^a   Rutter, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"minimal brain dysfunction" (MBD); Causal models of neurodevelopmental disorders; Commonalities among developmental disorders; Developmental dyslexia; Implications for clinical practice; Mental disorders organic and functional disorders; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Research implications of neurodevelopmental disorder concept; Syndrome neurodevelopmental disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 74549208996     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300895.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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