PSY341H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cognitive Flexibility, Joint Attention, Echolalia
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Lecture 4 autism and childhood onset schizophrenia. Intellectual disabilities are more common in boys than girls. Most intellectual disabilities have an identified organic/biological cause. Externalizing & aggressive behaviour (vs. no exposure); 3 times more likely to clinical range for delinquent behaviour. Fetal alcohol syndrome (fas) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (fasd) diagnosis and moral policing; an ethical dilemma for paediatricians. Archives of diseases in childhood, advance online publication. doi:10. 1136/archdischild- How do you deal with overlap in symptoms for comorbidity: one example (from dsm-5 diagnostic criteria for adhd): Functional analysis: observation to identify what is reinforcing/maintaining the behaviour: attention, demand/escape, alone, vs. control conditions. Questions about prader-willi syndrome: hormonal differences, deficiencies in growth hormone, sex hormones (burman, ritzen, & lindgren, hypothalamic dysfunction = lack of satiety (cassidy & driscoll, 2009, genetic therapies under investigation www. fpwr. org/projects-category/gene- therapy. Characteristics of angelman syndrome: motor characteristics, ataxia (awkward gate, hand flapping. Prenatal screening & pregnancy termination: de graaf, buckley, & skotko (2015) u. s. study.
