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Title: Developmental Disorders


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Developmental Disorders
  • Lecture of 2-22-07

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Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • Unable to focus, easily distracted
  • Impulsive
  • Does not complete tasks, changes tasks often

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From Famous People andAttention Deficit
Disorderhttp//www.adhdrelief.com/famous.html
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ADHD Quotes
  • I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept
    wandering. Steven Wright
  • Punctuality is a virtue of the bored Evelyn
    Waugh

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See the Top 10 Great Characteristics of ADHD
Folks.
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Autism
  • Diagnosis is based on 3 symptoms
  • Lack of responsiveness to other people
  • Impairment in verbal and nonverbal communication
  • Limited activities and limited interests
  • Engage in repetitive behaviors

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FYI (not notes) from http//www.autism-resources.c
om/autismfaq-theo.html
  • Most researchers are convinced that the cause is
    biological rather than psychological. Bernard
    Rimland in his book Infantile Autism (1965) cited
    the following evidence for a biological genesis
    and against the idea that parents cause their
    children to be autistic
  • Some clearly autistic children are born to
    parents who do not fit the autistic parent
    personality pattern.
  • Parents who do fit the description of the
    supposedly pathogenic parent almost invariably
    have normal, non-autistic children.
  • With very few exceptions, the siblings of
    autistic children are normal.
  • Autistic children are behaviorally unusual "from
    the moment of birth."
  • There is a consistent ratio of three or four boys
    to one girl.
  • Virtually all cases of twins reported in the
    literature have been identical, with both twins
    afflicted.
  • Autism can occur or be closely simulated in
    children with known organic brain damage.
  • The symptomatology is highly unique and specific.
  • There is an absence of gradations of infantile
    autism which would create "blends" from normal to
    severely afflicted.
  • Points 4 and 9 are not generally accepted now,
    perhaps because of the broadening of the
    condition's definition over time, and perhaps
    because of additional observation data
    collection.

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FYI (not for notes)
  • If parents have one child with autism, the chance
    of another child is 3-8
  • Identical twins if one has it, 30 chance that
    the other one has it.

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Eating disorders
  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • 85 of normal weight
  • Unrealistic body image
  • Restrictive food consumption
  • Bulimia nervosa
  • Binging of 1000s of calories
  • Purging by vomiting or laxatives

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Nicole Richie
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Paula Abdul Singer and dancer, famous for her
daring necklines and skin-tight dresses, has a
secret weapon for keeping her figure sexy and
trim. She employs a highly priced "food cop" to
patrol her kitchen. Top Hollywood nutritionist
Yolanda Berman keeps a strict eye on what
36-year-old Abdul keeps in her pantry, cupboards
and fridge. Abdul once thought nothing of sitting
down to wolf down a whole cake, a bag of biscuits
and a tub of ice cream. Then she would retreat to
the bathroom and purge herself of the food. She
had to overcome the eating disorder bulimia,
whose sufferers binge and purge, by checking into
a clinic in 1994. Abdul was once also an exercise
junkie, trying to burn off the extra kilojoules
she had taken in by over-indulging in food. "I
used to be a fanatic," she says. "I used to
exercise four or five times a day. "Now it's
different. I don't exercise too much for the
wrong reasons. Three times a week I'll do some
cardiovascular or aerobic activity.
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