Childhood disintegrative disorder: Distinction from autistic disorder and predictors of outcome

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1587-1598

  Rosman, N Paul ^a   Bergia, Berta M ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Parkwest Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

autism; childhood disintegrative disorder; Heller syndrome; pervasive developmental disorder

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BABINSKI REFLEX; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIRTH; CHILD; CHILD REARING; CHILDHOOD DISINTEGRATIVE DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPULSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIVORCED PARENT; ECHOLALIA; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENURESIS; EXCITABILITY; EXPLOSION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FIRST DEGREE RELATIVE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSESSION; ONLY CHILD; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REMISSION; RETT SYNDROME; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; STANFORD-BINET INTELLIGENCE SCALE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONSILLECTOMY; URINE INCONTINENCE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE;

AGE OF ONSET; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 84887957337     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073812472391     Document Type: Article

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