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Aetiology Based Diagnosis and Treatment Selection in Intellectually Disabled People with Challenging Behaviours
ISSN: 2292 - 2598
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Aetiology Based Diagnosis and Treatment Selection in Intellectually Disabled People with Challenging Behaviours
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Publisher: Lifescience Global Inc.
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2292 - 2598
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Abstract
Since both intellectual disability and challenging behaviour are entities encompassing heterogeneous clinical conditions and current taxonomies are of limited use in this field of psychiatry, diagnosing psychiatric symptoms in intellectually disabled patients is still very complex. In the diagnostic process of psychiatric symptoms and behavioural abnormalities, the first step should be genome profiling using the latest techniques in order to detect pathogenic CNVs or single gene mutations that are causative for the developmental delay. Their importance can be derived from the scientific observation that several genetic syndromes are associated with a specific behavioural, psychiatric, neuropsychological or neurological symptom profile, relevant for both choice of treatment and prognosis. Second, it has to be stressed that psychiatric disorders, especially from the depression and anxiety spectrum, frequently manifest with atypical symp...
