Childhood dysphasias and dyslalias
What is Dysphasia: one in a group of speech disorders in which there is impairment of the power o...
Criteria for Conduct Disorder
The Conduct disorder (according to DSM-IV) with the publication of DSM-5 it has been renamed Diso...
Dysphemia: causes, symptoms and treatment
Dysphemia, popularly known as stuttering, is the most common fluency disorder of speech, reaching...
Mental retardation associated with the X chromosome: Fragile X syndrome
Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), also called by Martin & Bell, is the leading cause of inherited men...
Rumination disorder and pica in children
Eating disorders they are actually serious and often fatal diseases that cause serious disturbanc...
Child abuse and neglect
According to a recent meta-analysis by Pereda, Guilera, Forns and Gómez-Benito (2009), the preval...
Criteria for the diagnosis of mental retardation
"Mental Retardation" has had various names throughout history. Until the 18th century the term "i...
Stereotyped movement disorder
The behavior is not better explained as a compulsion (as in obsessive-compulsive disorder), a tic...
Reactive Attachment Disorder of Childhood
In some cases we speak of Bond disorder when breakups have occurred traumatic events in the child...