PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Field Dependence, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Fusiform Gyrus
30 Mar 2016
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Deficient social interaction, communication: deficits in social-emotional reciprocity. Failure to initiate or respond to social interactions: deficits in non-verbal communication. Lack of facial expression and nonverbal communication: deficits in developing, maintaining relationships. Restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviour: stereotyped, repetitive movements, speech, etc. Idiosyncratic phrases: insistence on sameness of routines or rituals, fixated interests of unusual intensity of focus, hypo-hyper-reactivity to sensory input. Adverse response to specific sounds, textures, etc. Symptoms are present in early developmental period. Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning . Symptoms not better explained by intellectual disability, or global developmental delay. Specifications: with or without intellectual impairment, with or without language impairment, associated with other medical (digestive problems, motor disorders), genetic, environmental conditions, associated with another mental, behavioural disorder, catatonia (cid:1) (cid:1) Intellectual and/or language impairment: 70% of asd patients are comorbid with another intellectual disorder. Prone to anxiety, depression (adolescents or adults) (especially high functioning) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)
