Diseases of children (pediatrics)

Emotional disorders specific to childhood: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Emotional disorders specific to childhood - exaggeration of normal tendencies in the child's development process, manifested by expressed anxiety or fear only in certain situations, are characteristic of infant, preschool and primary school age and disappear when growing up.

Mixed disorders of behavior and emotions in children: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Mixed behavioral and emotional disorders are a group of disorders characterized by a combination of persistent aggressive, dissocial or defiant behavior with obvious symptoms of depression, anxiety, or other emotional disorders.

Depression in the child

Depression is a disorder characterized by a classic triad: decreased mood (hypotomy), motor and ideator retardation.

Violation of behavior in children

This section includes a group of behavioral disorders characterized by a persistent type of dissocial, aggressive or challenging behavior, reaching a marked violation of age-appropriate social norms.

Disruption of activity and attention in children

Disruption of activity and attention is a group of disorders, combined according to the phenomenological principle on the basis of weakly modulated behavior with age-inappropriate hyperactivity, attention deficit, impulsivity and lack of sustained motivation for activities requiring willpower.

Asperger syndrome in children

Asperger's Syndrome is a disorder whose nosological independence is not defined; is characterized by the same type of qualitative disorders of social interaction as typical children's autism, against the background of normal cognitive development and speech.

Geller syndrome: symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Geller syndrome is a rapidly progressive dementia in young children (after a period of normal development) with the loss of previously acquired skills, a violation of social, communicative and behavioral functioning.

Rett syndrome in children

Rett syndrome is a progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system mainly in girls. The genetic nature of Rett's syndrome is associated with the breakdown of the X chromosome and the presence of spontaneous mutations in the regulator genes of the replication process. A selective deficiency of a number of proteins regulating the growth of dendrites, glutamine receptors in the basal ganglia, as well as violations of dopaminergic and cholinergic functions has been revealed.

Autism in children

Autism is a general developmental disorder characterized by a violation of social interaction and communication, repetitive or stereotyped behavior, uneven mental development, often with mental retardation. Symptoms occur in the first years of life.

Mixed specific developmental disorders in children

A group of disorders characterized by the presence of specific speech development disorders, school skills, and motor functions in one person without a significant predominance of one of the defects required to establish a primary diagnosis. A common symptom for this category of disorders is their combination with some degree of cognitive impairment.

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