Meanings of early infantile autism in English

A new US study has confirmed a sharp but unexplained rise in the number of childhood autism cases being reported by health centres in California.

Childhood autism is now widely viewed as being of developmental neurobiological origin.

There was no correlation of Childhood Autism Rating Scale or Developmental Profile 3 score with sleep problems in children with ASD.

Morphometric measures were statistically compared between groups and correlated with age and scores on the Psychoeducational Profile-Revised and the Childhood Autism Rating Scale.

The CHARGE ( Childhood Autism Risks from Genetics and Environment) study will address a wide spectrum of chemical and biologic exposures, susceptibility factors, and their interactions.

No estimate was made for infantile autism due to low number of cases.

No association was found between average alcohol consumption and ASD or infantile autism, respectively.

Results: In total, 401 children were diagnosed with ASD and 157 with infantile autism.

Conclusion: Our findings do not support that a low prenatal alcohol exposure increases the risk of ASD or infantile autism.

A Chinese boy, suffering from infantile autism, looks at a beluga whale in Changfeng Park in Shanghai December 21, 2005.

We tested whether these associations replicated in a Caucasian sample with strictly defined autistic disorder.

Density of muscle twitches was significantly higher in patients with autistic disorder than in normal controls.

Then this kicker: "They don't have the language or cognitive impairments seen in autistic disorder."

Aripiprazole is an atypical antipsychotic approved for pediatric use in schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder, and autistic disorder.

It became a diagnosis in 1994, distinct from autistic disorder, but the lines were blurry even then.

The yield of array comparative genomic hybridization in the adult autism spectrum disorder population is unknown.

Genetic reevaluation in adult autism patients is warranted.