Delivery of the fetus and placenta under the care of an obstetrician or a health worker. Obstetric deliveries may involve physical, psychological, medical, or surgical interventions.
A behavior disorder originating in childhood in which the essential features are signs of developmentally inappropriate inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
Having been hospitalized in a psychiatric institution.
The distinguishing qualities, or characteristics, belonging to an individual. The qualities that have been shown to be important for the autism spectrum disorder phenotype include, for example, language and other cognitive abilities, restricted, repetitive and stereotyped behaviors, aspects of executive functioning, and a range of emotional traits.
Severe distortions in the development of many basic psychological functions that are not normal for any stage in development. These distortions are manifested in sustained social impairment, speech abnormalities, and peculiar motor movements.
The ability to understand and accurately express information regarding one's own thoughts, opinions, and feelings.
Skills that involve the large muscle groups, including movements of the arms, legs, feet, or the entire body.
Awareness of someone's voice when another individual begins speaking, and ability to turn, locate and focus on voice, including responding when name is called.
Virus diseases caused by the herpesviridae.
Disorders that are characterized by the production of antibodies that react with host tissues or immune effector cells that are autoreactive to endogenous peptides.
Manifestations of diseases of the respiratory tract.
Being subject during pregnancy or infancy to agents and other environmental factors, such as medications or other substances that could affect the development of the fetus or infant.
Stereotyped, Restricted, and Repetitive Behavior
Behaviors, interests, movements, or vocalizations that are repetitive and lack clear function and purpose.
The ability to recognize and understand language sounds.
Carrying out domestic and everyday actions and tasks, including adhering to household rules, caring for one's self and one's possessions, and performing household tasks.
Performing activities involved in the comprehension and production of written language for the purpose of obtaining general knowledge or specific information.
A group of autosomal recessive disorders marked by a deficiency of the hepatic enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase, or less frequently by reduced activity of dihydropteridine reductase (i.e., atypical phenylketonuria).
Engaging in any form of play, recreational, or leisure activity.
The ability to function in social situations. Children and adults with autism spectrum disorder demonstrate some delays, deficits, or atypical characteristics in the frequency, type, and quality of social interactions and social relationships with other individuals. Research suggests that differences in social development characterize children with autism spectrum disorder from the earliest months, and that delays, deficits, or atypical characteristics in this domain may be a "core feature" of autism spectrum disorder.
The inability to control and appropriately manage intensity of behavior, including excessive silliness, laughing, and loudness.
Significant alterations in temperature of the human body, above or below 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius when taken orally.
Inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco.
A mood state characterized by sadness, despair, or discouragement, and melancholic feelings of grief or unhappiness.
Retrograde flow of gastric juice and/or duodenal contents into the distal esophagus, commonly due to incompetence of the lower esophageal sphincter.
An acute infectious disease caused by rubulavirus, spread by direct contact, airborne droplet nuclei, fomites contaminated by infectious saliva, and perhaps urine, and usually seen in children under the age of 15, although adults may also be affected.
A childhood disorder predominately affecting boys. It is characterized by severe, sustained, clinically significant impairment of social interaction, and restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior. There are no clinically significant delays in language or cognitive development.
Skill with numbers and mathematics, such as counting, ordering sequences, and telling time.
The ability to change strategies, or shift mental sets, when involved in problem-solving.
Response to changes in situations or surroundings.
A record of a patient's background regarding health and the occurrence of disease events.
Apprehension or fear of social interaction or social situations in general.
Potentially detrimental effects or harmful conditions to which a newborn is exposed.
Conditions or pathological processes associated with pregnancy. They can occur during or after pregnancy, and range from minor discomforts to serious diseases that require medical interventions.
Doing housework such as cleaning the house, tidying rooms, washing clothes, storing food and disposing of garbage.
The ability to understand obligations and accountability assumed in formal and informal relationships with others.
Initiating and Responding to Social Overtures
Showing interest in making social advances to initiate friendly interactions as well as positive responses to the social advances of others.
Understanding and obeying rules that have been determined for appropriate behavior within the household.
Absence of subjective feeling that one has transgressed a moral, social or ethical principle.
Ingesting alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
Skill in reasoning, including problem solving and numeracy.
Using language according to the social conventions that govern conversational interactions, including being able to interpret speakers' intended meanings across a variety of social contexts.
Pathological processes involving the thyroid gland.
Unusual speech, including formulaic speech, overreliance on a restricted range of expressions, echolalia, and idiosyncratic sound-meaning associations.
The small movements of the hands, wrists, fingers, feet, toes, lips, and tongue.
Avoiding risks and potentially hazardous situations that can lead to injury or harm.
A set of cognitive functions that controls complex, goal-directed thought and behavior. Executive function involves multiple domains, such as concept formation, goal management, cognitive flexibility, inhibition control, impulse control, and working memory. Executive function in autism spectrum disorder is a subject of continuing research.
Hereditary and sporadic conditions which are characterized by progressive nervous system dysfunction. These disorders are often associated with atrophy of the affected central or peripheral nervous system structures.
A class of disabling primary headache disorders, characterized by recurrent unilateral pulsatile headaches. The two major subtypes are common migraine (without aura) and classic migraine (with aura or neurological symptoms).
Limiting the quantity and quality of food intake.
Everyday skills that are needed at home and in the community.
The ability to recognize the communication situation, including the mood, opinions and comprehension level of other participants, and to modify one's language and responses accordingly.
Altered reactivity to an antigen, which can result in pathologic reactions upon subsequent exposure to that particular antigen.
The position or orientation of the fetus at near term or during obstetric labor, determined by its relation to the spine of the mother and the birth canal.
The determination of the nature of a disease or condition, or the distinguishing of one disease or condition from another. Assessment may be made through physical examination, laboratory tests, or the like.
Skill in Understanding Non-Literal Meaning
The ability to recognize and comprehend figurative and metaphorical meanings.
Atypical degree of interest in sensory stimuli, such as flashing lights, textures, or sounds.
Behavior in which persons intentionally hurt or harm themselves.
Thinking that is coherent and logical, involving ability to follow instructions as well as problem solving ability.
Quality of the work conducted at one's place of employment.
A vague complaint of debility, fatigue, or exhaustion attributable to weakness of various muscles.
Pathological processes of the endocrine glands, and diseases resulting from abnormal level of available hormones.
Directing or governing one`s own emotions. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder can react negatively to their environment and at times may engage in emotional outbursts.
Performing activities involved in obtaining an education.
Habitual, repeated, rapid contraction of certain muscles, resulting in stereotyped individualized actions that can be voluntarily suppressed for only brief periods. They tend to be aggravated by emotional stress.
A class of traumatic stress disorders with symptoms that last more than one month. There are various forms of post-traumatic stress disorder, depending on the time of onset and the duration of these stress symptoms. In the acute form, the duration of the symptoms is between 1 to 3 months. In the chronic form, symptoms last more than 3 months. With delayed onset, symptoms develop more than 6 months after the traumatic event.
Developmental abnormalities involving structures of the heart. These defects are present at birth but may be discovered later in life.
Planning, organizing, cooking and serving simple and complex meals for oneself and others.
Being aware of and maintaining a distance between oneself and others that is contextually, socially and culturally appropriate.
Expression of abnormal or nonsensical thoughts.
The performance of complex motor acts that involve the movement of muscles in the body.
An inherited neurological developmental disorder that is associated with X-linked inheritance and may be lethal in utero to hemizygous males. The affected female is normal until the age of 6-25 months when progressive loss of voluntary control of hand movements and communication skills, ataxia, seizures, autistic behavior, intermittent hyperventilation, and hyperammonemia appear.
Abnormal processes that involve the physical and chemical processes that convert or use energy within the body.
Extremely strong interest in specific objects or topics.
Being subject during pregnancy to substance use that could affect the development of the fetus and the well-being of the mother.
Marked disorders of thought (delusions, hallucinations, or other thought disorder accompanied by disordered affect or behavior), and deterioration from a previous level of functioning.
Schizophrenia and Disorders with Psychotic Features
A neuropsychological disorder related to alterations in dopamine metabolism and neurotransmission involving frontal-subcortical neuronal circuits. Both multiple motor and one or more vocal tics are present, with tics occurring many times a day, nearly daily, over a period of more than one year.
Presence of a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder.
Loss of language ability after some language has already been acquired.
A form of bronchial disorder with three distinct components: airway hyper-responsiveness, airway inflammation, and intermittent airway obstruction.
An acute, usually benign, infectious disease caused by the rubella virus, and most often affecting children and non-immune young adults, in which the virus enters the respiratory tract via droplet nuclei and spreads to the lymphatic system.
Integrated Verbal and NonVerbal Communication
Matching non-verbal communication, such as gestures and facial expressions, with meaning conveyed through verbal communication.
Apprehending some aspect of an object or situation, through primarily visual-spatial mental functions.
Relationships, including conversations and joint activities, with family members and friends.
A condition characterized genotypically by mutation of the distal end of the long arm of the X chromosome (at gene loci FRAXA or FRAXE) and phenotypically by cognitive impairment, hyperactivity, seizures, language delay, and enlargement of the ears, head, and testes.
Participating in and enjoying interactions with others where the purpose is to be friendly or social, rather than expressing explicit information or needs.
Abnormal clinical manifestations that occur in infancy.
Showing outward display of emotions that can be perceived by others.
The ability to perceive new relationships and to derive new ideas and solve problems by pursuing nontraditional patterns of thinking.
Planning and carrying out the appropriate elimination of human waste and cleaning oneself afterwards.
Â When symptoms of autism spectrum disorder first appear.
Poor ability to regulate the speed of behavior or response time that involves both motor and psychological components.
The characteristics of a person's emotional makeup.
Behavioral manifestations of cerebral dominance in which there is preferential use and superior functioning of either the left or the right side, as in the preferred use of the right hand or right foot.
The gradual expansion in complexity and meaning of symbols and sounds as perceived and interpreted by the individual through a maturational and learning process.
Using items in the household such as cookware, washing machines, irons, and vacuum cleaners.
Conveying meaning by movements of the body, such as facial gestures, arm and hand movements, and postures.
The ability to produce sounds according to the sound patterns of language.
An extreme, violent display of emotion, often in response to frustration, including temper tantrums.
Inflammation of the colon that is predominantly confined to the mucosa. Its major symptoms include diarrhea, rectal bleeding, the passage of mucus, and abdominal pain.
The sensory discrimination of a pattern shape or outline.
The ability to produce the appropriate rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech.
An autosomal recessive disorder of cholesterol metabolism.
A general term for diseases produced by viruses.
Subnormal intellectual functioning which originates during the developmental period. This has multiple potential etiologies, including genetic defects and perinatal insults. Intelligence quotient (IQ) scores are commonly used to determine whether an individual is mentally retarded.
Extreme sensitivity to external stimuli such as noises, bright lights, smells and textures.
The ability to control and appropriately manage the experience and display of emotions in response to external stimuli.
A chromosome disorder associated either with an extra chromosome 21 or an effective trisomy for chromosome 21. Clinical manifestations include hypotonia, short stature, brachycephaly, upslanting palpebral fissures, epicanthus, Brushfield spots on the iris, protruding tongue, small ears, short, broad hands, fifth finger clinodactyly, Simian crease, and moderate to severe mental retardation.
Intolerance for deviation from routine, or Insistence on a specific order.
The presence of co-existing or additional diseases with reference to an initial diagnosis.
Understanding how logically connected events relate to each other, such as understanding connections and order in a sequence.
The analysis of a critical number of sensory stimuli or facts (the pattern) by processes such as vision, touch, or hearing, and the ability to produce patterns through drawing and other means.
The ability to understand and express accurate and relevant information during conversations, such as correctly answering questions of others.
Mental functions that regulate and resist sudden intense urges to do something.
Feeling unreasonably or excessively afraid of impending actual or imagined danger; including feelings of panic and phobias.
Insistence on an extreme degree of order in the surrounding environment, including placement and arrangement of specific objects.
Possessing a narrow range of interests in objects or topics.
An affective disorder manifested by either a dysphoric mood or loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. The mood disturbance is prominent and relatively persistent.
A marked regression in multiple areas of functioning following a period of apparently normal development.
An infantile syndrome characterized by a cat-like cry, failure to thrive, microcephaly, mental retardation, spastic quadriparesis, micro- and retrognathia, glossoptosis, bilateral epicanthus, hypertelorism, and tiny external genitalia.
Participating in and enjoying structured and unstructured games and spontaneous recreation.
Administration of vaccines to stimulate the host's immune response. This includes any preparation intended for active immunological prophylaxis.
Ulceration of the gastric mucosa due to contact with gastric juice.
Disorders of one or more of the twelve cranial nerves. With the exception of the optic and olfactory nerves, this includes disorders of the brain stem nuclei from which the cranial nerves originate or terminate.
Awareness of rules for social conduct, or standards which comprise a cultural definition of desirable or acceptable behavior.
A person's view of himself, including confidence in one's personal traits and abilities.
A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.
The ability to understand the structure and constituent parts of a word.
Taking action before considering the consequences or impact of such action.
Abilities needed to start, sustain and end an interchange of thoughts and ideas, carried out by means of spoken, written, sign or other forms of language, with one or more people one knows or who are strangers, in formal or casual settings.
Generally remaining isolated; avoiding interactions; preferring to be alone rather than with others.
The ability to understand and express a variety of types of information in conversation, including reporting of events, answering questions of others, and expressing one's own thoughts and feelings.
Indicating need for, and carrying out the coordinated tasks and actions of eating food that has been served or taking hold of a drink, bringing it to the mouth and consuming it in culturally acceptable ways.
Mental processing of chromatic signals from the eye by the visual cortex where they are converted into symbolic representations.
Consciousness of contextually and socially appropriate manner, such as by showing consideration and esteem when appropriate, or responding to the feelings of others.
Deliberately taking actions that cause physical or psychological pain for others.
Being subject during pregnancy to medications that could affect the development of the fetus and the well-being of the mother.
A kidney abnormality that is present from birth.
History of exposure and possible poisoning due to absorption or ingestion of lead.
Starting interactions with others, including introducing oneself and actively trying to make friends.
Products in capsule, tablet or liquid form that provide essential nutrients, such as a vitamin, an essential mineral, a protein, an herb, or similar nutritional substance.
Actively seeking out interactions with others.
Diagnostic and treatment techniques including surgery, hospitalization, etc. that occur during pregnancy or labor and delivery.
An autosomal dominant disorder caused by deletion of the proximal long arm of the paternal chromosome 15 (15q11-q13) or by inheritance of both of the pair of chromosomes 15 from the mother which are imprinted and hence silenced. Clinical manifestations include mental retardation, muscular hypotonia, hyperphagia, obesity, short stature hypogonadism, strabismus, and hypersomnolence.
The inability to conduct oneself with ease in social situations.
Offering and allowing others to use possessions, such as letting another child play with one's own toys.
A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of paroxysmal brain dysfunction due to a sudden, disorderly, and excessive neuronal discharge. Epilepsy classification systems are generally based upon: (1) clinical features of the seizure episodes, (2) etiology, (3) anatomic site of seizure origin, (4) tendency to spread to other structures in the brain, and (5) temporal patterns.
The ability to participate in and contribute to friendly and casual conversations with others in a contextually and socially appropriate manner, including asking questions relevant to the conversational topic.
An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, persistent obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are the intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that are experienced as senseless or repugnant. Compulsions are repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior which the individual generally recognizes as senseless and from which the individual does not derive pleasure although it may provide a release from tension.
The awareness of the spatial properties of objects; including physical space.
The vocabulary that an individual can produce.
Disturbances of usual sleep patterns or behaviors.
Appearing unemotional, unresponsive, or disconnected from one's physical environment.
The ability to shift to a different thought or action according to a change in situation.
Participating in informal or casual gatherings or groups with others who have common interests.
The ability to produce phrases and sentences according to the rules of grammar.
The reciprocal interaction of two or more persons.
The ability to control and appropriately manage emotional responses when under stress.
Caring for oneself, including washing and drying oneself, caring for one's body and body parts, proper use of the bathroom as needed, dressing, eating and drinking.
Arranging one's own possessions, including returning possessions to proper arrangement after use and finding possessions when needed.
Maintenance and Organization of Possessions
Atypical behavior that involves both display of unusual or intense interests, and atypical movements such as hand flapping, finger movements, rocking or twirling.
Preparing and arranging the time and space for performance of a task with one or more components and undertaking execution of the task.
Carrying out simple or complex and coordinated actions related to the mental and physical components of a single task, such as initiating a task, organizing time, space and materials for a task, pacing task performance, and carrying out, completing, and sustaining a task.
Showing interest in participating in or learning about activities or topics that others express enjoyment in.
Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.
Engaging in competitive and informal or formally organized games or athletic events, performed alone or in a group.
Malformations of organs or body parts during development in utero.
Ability to Engage in Casual Conversation
The ability to maintain casual interactions with others such as chatting and small talk, in a contextually and socially appropriate manner.
Mental functions involved in discriminating shape, size, color and other ocular stimuli. Many individuals with autism spectrum disorder show superior perceptual skills relative to the general population.
The ability to recognize how one's own behavior affects others, including recognizing when one's behavior bothers others, or when one's behavior hurts another individual.
Understanding the Effect of One's Actions
Behavior related to feeding which negatively affects the quality or amount of food eaten and digested.
The interference with or prevention of a behavioral or verbal response even though the stimulus for that response is present.
The ability to produce phrases, sentences, or sets of sentences that successfully convey meaning.
Overuse or misuse of medications or other drugs.
Skills that allow successful engagement in all aspects of community social life, such as engaging in organized groups, recreation, and citizenship.
Atypical or highly limited interest in specific objects or topics.
Transmission of emotions, ideas, and attitudes between individuals in ways other than the spoken language.
Intentionally violating rules, commands or prohibitions.
Pathological processes of the ear, the hearing, and the equilibrium system of the body.
The ability to shift attention from one activity or focus to another when required to do so.
The ability to successfully manage arranging materials, space, or time as needed to facilitate performance of tasks.
Symptoms or features that signal the presence of a disease or condition.
The occurrence of a pregnancy complication during childbirth, which includes both labor (the process of childbirth) and delivery (the birth itself).
The ability to comprehend phrases and sentences according to the rules of grammar.
A syndrome characterized by multiple abnormalities, mental retardation, and movement disorders. Present usually are skull and other abnormalities, frequent infantile spasms easily provoked and prolonged paroxysms of laughter, jerky puppet-like movements, continuous tongue protrusion; motor retardation; ataxia, muscle hypotonia, and a peculiar facies.
Meeting the eyes of another individual in an effort to communicate or in response to communication by the other individual, and integrating eye contact with verbal interaction, including looking at the individual speaking or being addressed.
Beginning and maintaining interactions with others for a short or long period of time, in a contextually and socially appropriate manner.
The persistent eating of nonnutritive substances.
The inability to wait calmly without feelings of agitation.
The vocabulary that an individual is able to understand.
Diseases of any component of the brain (including the cerebral hemispheres, diencephalon, brain stem, and cerebellum) or the spinal cord.
A general term for the complete or partial loss of the ability to hear from one or both ears.
Pathological processes of the female or male urinary tract and the reproductive system (genitalia). In females this includes disorders related to pregnancy.
Results of conception and ensuing pregnancy. The outcome may follow natural or artificial insemination or any assisted reproductive technique.
Conditions characterized by a significant discrepancy between an individual's perceived level of intellect and their ability to acquire new language and other cognitive skills.
Inflammation of the ear, which may be marked by pain, fever, hearing disorders, and vertigo. Inflammation of the external ear is otitis externa; of the middle ear, otitis media; of the inner ear, labyrinthitis.
The conceptual process of creating ideas and generalizations that are distinct from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances.
A malabsorption syndrome that is precipitated by the ingestion of gluten-containing foods, such as wheat, rye, and barley. It is characterized by inflammation of the small intestine, loss of microvilli structure, failed intestinal absorption, and malnutrition.
The ability to learn and to deal with new situations and to deal effectively with tasks involving abstractions. The relative intelligence of an individual is expressed as a score on a standardized test of intelligence.
Traumatic injury involving the cranium and intracranial structures, including the brain, cranial nerves, or meninges.
A general state of sluggishness, listlessness, or tiredness, and having difficulty concentrating and doing simple tasks.
Intentionally damaging one's own or others' belongings.
The ability to focus on an external stimulus or internal experience for the required period of time, including intentionally focusing on specific stimuli, such as by filtering out distracting noises.
Observable changes of expression in the face in response to emotional stimuli.
Excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the cranium that may be associated with dilation of cerebral ventricles, intracranial hypertension, headache, lethargy, urinary incontinence, and ataxia (and in infants macrocephaly).
Understanding and obeying rules and laws when in the broader community.
Requiring a high degree of attention from others, including being unable to act appropriately when left alone by caregiver.
Movement of a part of the body for the purpose of communication.
The temporary storage and manipulation of the information necessary for such complex cognitive tasks as language comprehension, learning, and reasoning. Working memory has been found to require the simultaneous storage and processing of information.
The degree of excellence with which a task is performed.
Clinical or subclinical disturbances of cortical function due to a sudden, abnormal, excessive, and disorganized discharge of brain cells. Clinical manifestations include abnormal motor, sensory and psychic phenomena.
The ability to use and comprehend the complex system of human communication. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder often have a range of receptive and expressive language impairments.
Development or Regression of Language Skills
The acquisition or loss of the ability to communicate using language.
Sharing attentional focus with others between objects or events.
Deliberate engagement in disruptive or improper behavior.
Chronic, non-specific inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract.
Tendency to display unpredictable, extreme, and rapidly changing emotions or moods.
An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behavior of others, including demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others.
Finding solutions to questions or situations by identifying and analyzing issues, developing options and solutions, evaluating potential effects of solutions, and executing a chosen solution.
The confinement of a patient in a hospital.
A disorder beginning in childhood. It is marked by the presence of markedly abnormal or impaired development in social interaction and communication and a markedly restricted repertoire of activity and interest.
Persistent repetition of a response to stimuli.
Pathological conditions involving the cardiovascular system including the heart, the blood vessels, or the pericardium.
Diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system. This includes disorders of the brain, spinal cord, cranial nerves, peripheral nerves, nerve roots, autonomic nervous system, neuromuscular junction, and muscle.
Giving and reacting appropriately to signs and hints that occur in social interactions. This ability can be compromised in individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
Performing tasks necessary for the general management and upkeep of a household, including completing chores and preparing food.
Mimicking or copying the movements of other individuals as a means of interaction and play as well as to learn by modeling the actions and behaviors of others.
Ability to Convey Appropriate Level of Detail
The ability to recognize and express the appropriate amount of information required during conversation on a given topic, such as sharing details that will interest another without including unnecessary information.
Recognizing when being treated poorly or unfairly by others.
A chronic transmural inflammation that may involve any part of the digestive tract from mouth to anus, mostly found in the ileum, the cecum, and the colon.
An autosomal dominant disorder which is generally classified as a phacomatosis. The condition is characterized by glial cell tumors which arise in the cerebral hemispheres and retina. There is an increased incidence of benign rhabdomyomas of the heart and angiomyolipomas of kidney, liver, lungs, thyroid, and testes.
Transplacental infection of the fetus with rubella usually in the first trimester of pregnancy, as a consequence of maternal infection, resulting in various developmental abnormalities in the newborn infant.
Behavior which may be manifested by destructive and attacking action which is verbal or physical, by covert attitudes of hostility or by obstructionism.
Performing an act persistently and repetitively without it leading to reward or pleasure.
A heterogeneous group of nonprogressive motor disorders caused by chronic brain injuries that originate in the prenatal period, perinatal period, or first few years of life. The four major subtypes are spastic, athetoid, ataxic, and mixed cerebral palsy, with spastic forms being the most common. The motor disorder may range from difficulties with fine motor control to severe spasticity in all limbs.
Showing extreme proficiency in certain areas with special abilities, for example, in memory, music, drawing, reading and computational skills.
Symptoms related to the gastrointestinal system.
Reacting positively by attempts of others to initial social interaction.
Those disorders that have a disturbance in mood as their predominant feature.
The ability to recognize and enjoy humorous statements, including jokes, irony, and sarcasm.
Loss or decline of abilities or skills that have already been learned.
Carrying out the coordinated actions and tasks of putting on and taking off clothes and footwear in sequence and in keeping with climatic and social conditions.
The ability to produce and use language in an accurate and meaningful way.
Non-intentional, non-purposive behaviors, including perseveration, habitual repeated movements, and extreme sensitivity to stimuli.
Mutual actions and communicative exchanges among people in social settings.
The ability to produce accurate forms of words, including the inflections that indicate the grammatical role of a word.
The ability to understand language meaning.
General mental function required to understand and integrate the various mental functions, including all cognitive functions and their development over the life span.
A syndrome characterized by the onset of isolated language dysfunction in otherwise normal children (age of onset 4-7 years) and epileptiform discharges on electroencephalography. Seizures, including atypical absence, complex partial, and other types may occur.
The ability to sort objects in different ways as instructed, including sorting the same objects multiple times by different rules.
A method to evaluate a newborn's adjustment to extrauterine life. Five items - heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability, and color - are evaluated.
Atypical thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that cause distress or impairment of function.
Drugs intended for treatment of physical or mental disorders.
A group of disorders characterized by an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance with high rates of spontaneous mutation and multiple neurofibromas or neurilemmomas.
Environmental or other conditions that may have an impact on the etiology or course of a disorder.
Insistence on a specific sequence of ordered events and actions and intolerance of deviation from such routines.
A complex operation in which a sequence of actions must be constantly monitored, re-evaluated and updated.
Overuse or misuse of a drug, alcohol, or tobacco.
A chronic, relapsing, inflammatory, and often febrile multisystemic disorder of connective tissue, characterized principally by involvement of the skin, joints, kidneys, and serosal membranes.
A subtype of diabetes mellitus that is characterized by insulin deficiency.
Diseases in any segment of the gastrointestinal tract from the esophagus to the rectum.
Recognizing and adhering to social conventions governing oneself and one's behavior in public and around others.
A disorder with chronic or recurrent colonic symptoms without a clear-cut etiology. This condition is characterized by chronic or recurrent abdominal pain, bloating, mucus in feces, and an erratic disturbance of defecation.
Observant of other participant in conversation, such as recognizing if other participant appears bored, not changing the topic of conversation if others are not interested, and not interrupting others in conversation.
Making a choice among options, implementing the choice, and evaluating the effects of the choice, or deciding to undertake and undertaking one task from among several tasks that need to be done.
The ability to control and appropriately manage a strong emotional feeling of displeasure aroused by being interfered with, injured or threatened.
Circumstances, procedures and processes associated with pregnancy and infancy, including procedures and processes such as labor and delivery, as well as complications that emerge prior to or immediately after birth.
Poor Treatment by Others in Social Settings
Being treated poorly by others in public, such as being frequently laughed at, made fun of, or bullied.