Infantile autism or infantile psychoses.

Infantile autism or infantile psychoses.

Until recently the situation in relation to childhood psychoses was extremely confused. There was little agreement among authors about terminology and a general uncertainty about their nature and aetiology. Masterly reviews by Eisenberg' 2 in the United States and Rutter' in the United Kingdom have brought some order to this complex field. Perhaps the most important contribution was the introdu...

Early infantile autism.

Infantile Reflexes Gone Astray in Autism

In the cases presented in this paper plus others we hypothesize that movement disturbances in infants can be interpreted as reflexes gone astray and may be early indicators for a diagnosis of autism. In the children reviewed some reflexes persist too long in infancy, whereas others first appear much later than they should. The asymmetrical tonic neck reflex is one reflex that may persist too lo...

Infantile autism and 47,XYY karyotype.

Dra. Evelyn Kuczynski – Rua Borges Lagoa 1080/908 04038-002 São Paulo SP Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] There is growing evidence that genetic and chromosomal factors are important in the genesis of autism spectrum disorders. The most commonly reported cytogenetic abnormalities are deletions involving chromosomes 7q, 22q13, 2q37, 18q, and Xp, as well as sex chromosome aneuplodies (47,XYY...

Perinatal risk factors for infantile autism.

BACKGROUND Etiologic hypotheses in infantile autism suggest a strong genetic component, as well as possible environmental risks linked to early fetal development. We evaluated the association of maternal, pregnancy, delivery, and infant characteristics and risk of infantile autism. METHODS We conducted a case-control study nested within a population-based cohort (all Swedish children born in ...