neurodevelopmental disorder
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mental disorder that are impairments of the growth and development of the brain or central nervous system
Key facts
- Specialty
- Psychiatry , neurology
- Symptoms
- Impaired in personal, social, academic domains
- Usual onset
- Early childhood (typically before school age)
- Types
- Intellectual disability Communication disorder Autism Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Motor disorder Learning disorder
- Diagnostic method
- Clinical symptom evaluation, may be confirmed by genetic testing
- Treatment
- Early intervention, therapy, educational support
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Research
260,656 papers- STXBP1 encephalopathy: A neurodevelopmental disorder including epilepsy.Neurology · 2016
- Expansion of the Genotypic and Phenotypic Spectrum of ASH1L-Related Syndromic Neurodevelopmental Disorder.Genes · 2024
- CIC-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder: A Review of the Literature and an Expansion of Genotype and Phenotype.Genes · 2024
- Neurodevelopmental disorders-the history and future of a diagnostic concept .Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2020
- DOCK3-Associated Neurodevelopmental Disorder-Clinical Features and Molecular Basis.Genes · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
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Neurodevelopmental disorders are a group of mental disorders causatively related to atypical development of the nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord. According to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) published in 2013, these conditions generally appear in early childhood, usually before children start school, and can persist into adulthood. The key characteristic of all these disorders is that they negatively impact a person's functioning in one or more domains of life (personal, social, academic, occupational) depending on the disorder and deficits it has caused. All of these disorders and their levels of impairment exist on a spectrum, and affected individuals can experience varying degrees of symptoms and deficits, despite having the same diagnosis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “neurodevelopmental disorder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.