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- Gillberg, Christopher, 1950
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Asperger's syndrome and recurrent psychosis--a case study.
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Ingår i: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. - 0162-3257. ; 15:4, s. 389-397
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A 14-year-old boy with mild mental retardation and behavioral features suggestive of the so called Asperger's syndrome is described. From the age of 8 years he has had recurrent episodes of lethargy. At the onset of puberty these episodes took on a more dramatic form and became more reminiscent of cycloid/manic-depressive psychosis. There is a family history of manic-depressive disorder. Neurobiological links with and differences from the syndrome of infantile autism were found. It is suggested that there is still too little evidence clearly to single out the entity of Asperger's syndrome from the spectrum of autistic syndromes.
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- Gillberg, Christopher, 1950
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Attention deficit disorder: diagnosis, prevalence, management and outcome.
- 1986
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Ingår i: Pediatrician. - 0300-1245. ; 13:2-3, s. 108-118
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Some of the clinical and research problems associated with so-called attention deficit disorder (ADD), minimal brain dysfunction (MBD) and hyperactivity in childhood are surveyed. It is concluded that there is no international consensus as regards diagnostic criteria, prevalence of severe disorders is in the range of 1-5% of all preschool children, management is dependent on a wide variety of treatment facilities and that outcome is relatively poor in the 5- to 10-year perspective but that it may be somewhat better if the children are followed up to adult life.
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- Gillberg, Christopher, 1950, et al.
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Auditory brainstem responses in childhood psychosis.
- 1983
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Ingår i: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. - 0162-3257. ; 13:2, s. 181-195
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Auditory brainstem responses were compared in 24 autistic children, 7 children with other childhood psychoses, and 31 normal children. One-third of the autistic children showed abnormal ABR indicative of brainstem dysfunction and correlating with muscular hypotonia and severe language impairment. The children with other psychoses and the normal children showed normal results.
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- Gillberg, Christopher, 1950
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Autism and Rett syndrome: some notes on differential diagnosis.
- 1986
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Ingår i: American Journal of Medical Genetics. Supplement. - 1040-3787. ; 1, s. 127-131
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Rett syndrome and infantile autism share the common symptom of autism, especially in the early stages of the disorders. In the later development of Rett syndrome autism sometimes becomes less prominent and there may also be clear differences as regards the quality of autistic behaviour in Rett syndrome and infantile autism. However, in infancy, the syndromes may be indistinguishable. The present paper deals briefly with this issue and suggests that in many girls referred in infancy for autistic symptoms Rett syndrome should be considered seriously as a primary diagnostic alternative.
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- Gillberg, Christopher, 1950
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Autistic children's hand preferences: results from an epidemiological study of infantile autism.
- 1983
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Ingår i: Psychiatry Research. - 0165-1781. ; 10:1, s. 21-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Twenty-six autistic children, constituting a total population sample of children diagnosed in accordance with Rutter's criteria as suffering from infantile autism, were assessed with regard to handedness and certain associated factors. They were compared with 52 age-, sex-, and IQ-matched controls. Sixty-two percent of the autistic children were non-right-handed compared with 37% of the controls. Left-handedness in autism was associated with an abundance of delayed echolalia. Heredity for left-handedness in some cases, and assumed brain damage and immature patterns of lateralization in others, were considered the cause of non-right-handedness in the autistic children. Computed tomographic (CT) brain scans and other neurobiological examinations did not provide evidence indicating clear-cut unilateral left hemisphere dysfunction in autism. Rather, a slight trend in the opposite direction (i.e., an association with right hemisphere dysfunction) was seen in the left-handed autistic children. The result points toward the need for further studies of handedness in autism.
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