Emotional disorders specific to childhood - an exaggeration of the normal tendencies of the child's development process, manifested by pronounced anxiety or fear only in certain situations, are characteristic of infancy, preschool and primary school age and disappear with adulthood.
Mixed disorders of conduct and emotions are a group of disorders characterized by a combination of persistent aggressive, dissocial, or defiant behavior with overt symptoms of depression, anxiety, or other emotional disturbances.
This section includes a group of behavioral disorders characterized by a persistent type of dissocial, aggressive or defiant behavior, reaching the point of a pronounced violation of age-appropriate social norms.
Activity and attention disorders are a group of disorders united according to the phenomenological principle based on weakly modulated behavior with age-inappropriate hyperactivity, attention deficit, impulsivity, and lack of stable motivation for activities requiring volitional efforts.
Asperger syndrome is a disorder whose nosological independence has not been determined; it is characterized by the same type of qualitative disturbances in social interaction as typical childhood autism, against the background of normal cognitive development and speech.
Heller syndrome is a rapidly progressive mental retardation in young children (after a period of normal development) with loss of previously acquired skills and impairment of social, communicative and behavioral functioning.
Rett syndrome is a progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system, predominantly affecting girls. The genetic nature of Rett syndrome is associated with a breakdown of the X chromosome and the presence of spontaneous mutations in genes that regulate the replication process. Selective deficiency of a number of proteins that regulate the growth of dendrites, glutamine receptors in the basal ganglia, as well as disorders of dopaminergic and cholinergic functions have been identified.
Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, repetitive or stereotyped behavior, and uneven mental development often with mental retardation. Symptoms appear in the first years of life.
A group of disorders characterized by the presence in one person of specific disorders of speech development, school skills, motor functions without a significant predominance of one of the defects required to establish a primary diagnosis. A common feature for this category of disorders is their combination with some degree of impairment of cognitive functions.
