Revisiting Regression in Autism: Heller's "Dementia Infantilis"

Autor/inn/en	Westphal, Alexander; Schelinski, Stefanie; Volkmar, Fred; Pelphrey, Kevin
Titel	Revisiting Regression in Autism: Heller's "Dementia Infantilis"
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43 (2013) 2, S.265-271 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-012-1559-z
Schlagwörter	Children; Autism; Child Development; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Daily Living Skills; Dementia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Autismus; Kindesentwicklung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Alltagsfertigkeit; Demenz
Abstract	Theodor Heller first described a severe regression of adaptive function in normally developing children, something he termed dementia infantilis, over one 100 years ago. Dementia infantilis is most closely related to the modern diagnosis, childhood disintegrative disorder. We translate Heller's paper, Uber Dementia Infantilis, and discuss similarities in presentation between Heller's cases, and a group of children with childhood disintegrative disorder. In particular we discuss a prodromal period of affective dysregulation described by Heller, and also evident in our sample, but not previously described in any detail since the publication of Uber Dementia Infantilis. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10