Neuropsychiatric syndromes in adults with intellectual disability: Issues in assessment and treatment

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 380-390

  Ferrell, Richard B ^a   Wolinsky, Eve J ^b   Kauffman, Christopher I ^b   Flashman, Laura A ^b   McAllister, Thomas W ^b  

^a New Hampshire Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; ATOMOXETINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BROMOCRIPTINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOZAPINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; GABAPENTIN; HALOPERIDOL; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM SALT; METHYLPHENIDATE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PLACEBO; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; ZIPRASIDONE;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NOONAN SYNDROME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; RUBINSTEIN SYNDROME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIDE EFFECT; TURNER SYNDROME; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

EID: 9944236275     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-004-0025-9     Document Type: Review

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