OBJECTIVE To review the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-V), and to develop an approach to managing ASD using the CanMEDS- Family Medicine (CanMEDS-FM) framework. SOURCES OF INFORMATION The DSM-V from the American Psychiatric Association, published in May 2013, provides new diagnostic crit...

Aims There has been growing interest in regression among adolescents and young adults with Down Syndrome. Regression can also be referred to Acute Regression, Syndrome Disorder (DSRD), Disintegrative disorder (DSDD) or Unexplained (URDS) these terms are sometimes used interchangeably. Characterised by reduction expressive language, decreased functional skills reduced psychomotor activity, resul...

Objective To assess clinical features of Down Syndrome Disintegrative Disorder (DSDD) in trisomy 21 (T21) patients with a presumed diagnosis autoimmune encephalitis (AE) and analyze immunotherapy regimens timing. Background DSDD is characterized by acute to subacute developmental regression social functional skills emergence autistic behaviors T21. In contrast AE, brain imaging, cerebrospinal f...

objective : few study have examined the relationship between childhood maltreatment and personality disorder in later life especially in eastern mediterranean countries .the study was conducted to explore the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and personality disorder during later life in an iranian sample . a cross - sectional study was conducted in kerman , a city located in e...

Leo Kanner, an Austrian born American psychiatrist first described autism in 1943 152. His observations of a small group of children with behavioral symptoms of social withdrawal, impaired language/communication and obsession with sameness led to recognition of autism as a specific pervasive developmental disorder. At about the same time Austrian psychiatrist Hans Asperger independently describ...

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UNLABELLED Pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) or Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) include Autistic Disorder (commonest), Asperger's syndrome, Childhood Disintegrative Disorders, Rett's syndrome and PDD-NOS (not otherwise specified). OBJECTIVE Autism is an important cause of social disability and reported more often from the developed world than from the developing countries. The present...

THE NEXT REVISION OF PSYCHIATRY’S DIAGNOSTIC AND Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will be published in May 2013 and is the first revision of this psychiatric nomenclature in almost 2 decades. DSM-5 involved an international, multidisciplinary team of more than 400 individuals who volunteered vast amounts of their time throughout this 6-year official process, as well as many contri...