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Comportamiento autista
Definición:
El comportamiento autista describe patrones de comportamiento similares a los que se ven en el autismo .
Consideraciones generales:
El comportamiento autista comprende:
- Ausencia o desarrollo deficiente de las destrezas de comunicación verbal y no verbal (incapacidad para expresar claramente sus pensamientos y necesidades)
- Socialización anormal (falta de necesidad de interactuar con otros)
- Aislamiento social
- Incapacidad para hacer amigos
- Movimientos corporales repetitivos
- Conducta ritualista
- Ausencia de contacto visual
- Diversas anomalÃas en patrones del lenguaje
Algunas infecciones y enfermedades neurológicas pueden producir sÃntomas parecidos a los del autismo.
Causas comunes:
- Autismo infantil
- Sordera
- Retardo mental
- Trastornos metabólicos degenerativos del SNC ( sistema nervioso central )
- Esquizofrenia
- Fecha de revisión: 5/12/2006
- Versión en inglés revisada por: Daniel Rauch, MD, FAAP, Director, Pediatric Hospitalist Program, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
- Traducción y localización realizada por: DrTango, Inc.
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