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Clinical, Electrophysiological, and Biochemical Markers and Monoaminergic Hypotheses in Autism

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Brain and Behavior in Child Psychiatry

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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 and nonverbal communication, ritualistic and compulsive behaviors, and disturbances of motility and attention.

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Bruneau, N. et al. (1990). Clinical, Electrophysiological, and Biochemical Markers and Monoaminergic Hypotheses in Autism. In: Rothenberger, A. (eds) Brain and Behavior in Child Psychiatry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75342-8_14

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