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Abstract The pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) are characterized by patterns of deviance and delay in social-communicative development in the first years of life, which are associated with restricted patterns of interest or behaviour. The prototypic PDD is childhood autism; other conditions included in the PDD class in ICD-10 include Rett's syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, Asperger's syndrome, and atypical autism. Except for one additional category in ICD-10 (hyperkinetic stereotyped movement disorder), the disorders included in ICD-10 and DSM-IV are essentially identical. In this chapter each of these conditions will be reviewed in terms of their clinical features, definition, epidemiology, course, and aetiology; final sections of the chapter address aspects of treatment and prevention for the group of disorders as a whole (Box 9.2.3.1).

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Pervasive developmental disorderAutismPsychologyDevelopmental psychologyDeviance (statistics)Rett syndromeAsperger syndromePsychiatryEtiologyDevelopmental disorderClinical psychology

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2012
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45
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1
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1634-1643
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950
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Fred R. Volkmar, Catherine Lord, Anthony Bailey et al. (2012). Autism and the pervasive developmental disorders. New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry , 45 (1) , 1634-1643. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199696758.003.0214

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