Classification of autism and related conditions: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 229-237

  Volkmar, Fred R ^a   Reichow, Brian ^a   McPartland, James ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Diagnosis; DSM 5

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; CHILDHOOD DISINTEGRATIVE DISORDER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DSM-5; DSM-IV; FAMILY HISTORY; HUMAN; ICD-10; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; PHENOTYPE; RESEARCH DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES;

EID: 84875778006     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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