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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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...