The substantial increase in the prevalence of autism necessitates that practicing physicians
become more familiar with the presentation of symptoms to increase early diagnoses and …

Recently, during a rotation as the attending physician on our cardiology consult service, a
patient we were seeing for atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response was reported to …

Autism is a severe form of psychopathology in childhood and is characterized, in general, by
severe withdrawal and lack of social behavior, severe language and attentional deficits, and …

Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired reciprocal
social interaction, impaired communication, and restricted, repetitive, or stereotyped …

Autism is an emerging area of basic and clinical research, and has only recently been
recognized as a major topic in biomedical research. Approximately 1 in 150 children are …

Reflecting tremendous gains over the past decade in our understanding of the causes of
autism, Clinical Manual for the Treatment of Autism meets the increasing need for clear, up …

The clinical spectrum of autism spans a broad range of functions, but the core symptoms
remain the same regardless of the intelligence of the child: the autistic type of social deficit …

Autistic disorder, a pervasive developmental disorder resulting in social, language, or
sensorimotor deficits, occurs in approximately seven of 10,000 persons. Early detection and …

First described in the early 1940s, autism was thought to be a rare disorder, with a
prevalence of 1 in 2,500 to 4,000. In the past several decades, in part because of an …

Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by qualitative impairments
in social interaction and communication, with restricted, repetitive, stereotyped patterns of …