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Perspectives
At the end of this book, one might have the impression of a gap between the current technical possibilities of investigation in child psychiatry and the actual findings. Most studies have been done on groups a...
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Cerebral development and neurophysiological investigations
Most childhood psychiatric syndromes appear at a well defined stage of development (Fig. 1) which in part determines their clinical picture. Thus, autism appears very early and affects all adaptive functions: ...
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Anatomical and physiological bases of the main electroencephalographic rhythms
The electroencephalogram (EEG), described for the first time by Berger (1929), was for a long time the only method available for functional exploration of the brain and was thus used for diagnostic purposes. A...
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Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and Auditory Evoked Potential Studies in Childhood Autism
An impairment of sensory modulation has been proposed as a putative brain dysfuntion in autism. All sensory modalities could be affected and the faulty modulation is manifest as either underreactivity or overr...
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Monoaminergic Systems and Child Psychiatric Pathophysiology
Since the demonstration in 1921 by Otto Loewi that a chemical substance was released after nervous stimulation, much neuroscientific research has been performed on neurotransmission and chemical synapse. Work ...
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Clinical, Electrophysiological, and Biochemical Markers and Monoaminergic Hypotheses in Autism
Early infantile autism, originally described by Kanner (1943), is a syndrome defined by a set of clinical features including failure to develop normal social relationships, developmental disturbances of verbal...
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Sleep Disturbances in Children: From the Physiological to the Clinical
During childhood, more than one child in two has a sleep problem, ranging from a simple transitory episode such as nocturnal awakening to a genuine sleep disorder such as narcolepsy. Although there may exist a...
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Sensory Conditioning of Evoked Potentials in Chronic Alcoholics
Evoked potential (EP) studies have shown that alcoholism is associated with altered electrocortical activity. Begleiter et al. (1974) used the recovery cycle of somatosensory EPs, Their results indicated a pro...
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