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Book
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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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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...
