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Comorbidities in developmental disorders / edited by Martin C.O. Bax and Christopher Gillberg

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London : Mac Keith Press, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 157 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Bax, Martin and Gillberg, Christopher, 1950-
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AUTHORS' APPOINTMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; 1 INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND THEIR COMORBIDITIES; Terminology; Features associated with intellectual disability; Reasons for psychiatric and psychological comorbidities; Down syndrome: an illustration of a specifi c aetiological cause of intellectual; Frequent clinical common fi nal pathways; Self-injury; The need for a conceptual shift; Example of multidimensional aetiologically driven developmental and; Conspicuousness by absence; Conclusion; REFERENCES; 2 HETEROGENEITY IN CEREBRAL; Introduction; Terminology; Brain syndromes., Neurological heterogeneity and cerebral palsyPervasive developmental disorders and cerebral palsy; Conclusions; REFERENCES; 3 GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; Symptoms and diagnosis of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome; The comorbidities of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome; Relationship between Gilles de la Tourette syndrome and its comorbidities; Management; REFERENCES; 4 COMORBIDITY IN NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS:; Impact of classifi cation schemes on comorbidity; Associations with other neurodevelopmental problems; Common disorders of mental health; Associations with brain disorders., General conclusionsREFERENCES; 5 EARLY LANGUAGE DISORDER AS A FREQUENT COMORBIDITY IN MANY DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS IN YOUNG CHILDREN; Preliminary comment regarding comorbidity; Some conditions associated with inadequate language development; Conclusion; REFERENCES; 6 AUTISM AND EPILEPSY: COMORBIDITY, COEXISTENCE OR COINCIDENCE?; Prevalence of epilepsy in autism and of autism in epilepsy; Gender aspects; Diagnostic/differential diagnostic aspects including electroencephalogram; Types of seizures; Electrophysiology; Conclusion; REFERENCES; 7 GENETIC CORRELATES OF PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITY., and Molecular biology of fragile X syndromeComorbidities of fragile X syndrome; Intellectual disability; Psychosis and fragile X syndrome; Anxiety and fragile X syndrome; Autism and fragile X syndrome; The premutation and fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome; Conclusion; REFERENCES; 8 CHANNELOPATHIES; The primary episodic ataxias; Dravet syndrome and other SCN1A-related infantile epileptic encephalopathies; REFERENCES; 9 INCREASED LONGEVITY AND THE COMORBIDITIES ASSOCIATED; Comorbidities associated with intellectual and developmental disabilities; Down syndrome; Projected health trends.
Summary
Comorbidities are the co-occurrence of conditions more frequently than would be expected by chance: one may cause the other, share a common cause or be a sign of a single condition. Our growing understanding of the mechanisms underlying many comorbidities helps understand the natural history of these conditions and improve their management.
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ISBN
9781907655678 (electronic bk.)
1907655670 (electronic bk.)
9781907655005
190765500X
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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