ANTC68H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: 18 Months, Gastrointestinal Tract, Andrew Wakefield
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Psychosocial disorders (anxiety, eating, affective / mood, schizophrenia) Asperger syndrome (like autism, but milder, with normal language development) Rett syndrome (very different from autism, and only occurs in females) Childhood disintegrative disorder (rare condition where a child learns skills, but loses them by age 10) Pervasive developmental disorder - not otherwise specified (pdd-nos), also called atypical autism. Autism spectrum disorder (asd) is a range of complex neurodevelopment disorders, characterized by social impairments, communication difficulties, and restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior (national institute of neurological disorders and stroke). Autistic disorder, sometimes called autism or classical asd, is the most severe form of. Asd; a developmental disorder that appears in the first 3 years of life (often recognize symptoms by 18 months), and affects the brain"s normal development of social and communication skills. First recognized and labeled in 1948 by kanner. Asd varies significantly in character and severity.
