The Differential Diagnosis of Childhood Developmental Disorders
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Reducing complex human experiences into a psychiatric diagnosis can be a daunting task. For children with developmental disorders, this process is even more complicated and requires distilling often incomplete and frequently contradictory scientific evidence. Table 1 lists several examples of the problems of developmental psychopathology. Although far from comprehensive, this list does raise 2 points:
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