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Not to be confused with Multisystem developmental disorder.

Multiple complex developmental disorder (McDD) is a research category, proposed to involve symptoms of autism and schizophrenia.^[1] People with McDD have severe, early-appearing social and communicative deficits, emotional dysregulation, and disordered thought processes.^[1] In contrast to schizophrenia, symptoms of McDD emerge in earliest childhood, often in the first years of life, and persist throughout development.^[1] The term multiplex developmental disorder was coined by Simon Baron-Cohen in 1986.^[1]

[edit] Symptoms

There are three groups of symptoms:^[1] the autistic, affective and psychotic symptoms. Individuals must have symptoms from all three categories in order to be considered for a diagnosis of McDD.

[edit] Autistic symptomes

Impaired social behavior or sensitivity, similar to that seen in autism may involve:

Social disinterest
Detachment, avoidance of others, or withdrawal
Impaired peer relations
Highly ambivalent attachments
Limited capacity for empathy or understanding what others are thinking or feeling

[edit] Affective symptoms

Affective symptoms may involve:

Impaired regulation of feelings (i.e. emotional dysregulation)
Intense, inappropriate anxiety
Recurrent panic
Emotional lability, without obvious cause

[edit] Psychotic symptoms

Thought disorder (or psychotic) symptoms may involve:

Sudden, irrational intrusions on normal thoughts
Magical thinking
Confusion between reality and fantasy
Delusions such as paranoid thoughts or fantasies of special powers

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Multiplex Developmental Disorder, Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine

[edit] PubMed sources

[edit] Multiple complex developmental disorder

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[edit] Other sources

Weisbrot, Deborah M.; Carlson, Gabrielle A. (February 2005). ""Diagnostically Homeless": Is it ADHD? Mania? Autism? What to do if no diagnosis fits" (PDF). Current Psychiatry (Montvale, New Jersey: Dowden Health Media) 4 (2): 25–42. ISSN 1537-8276. OCLC 232115063. http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/pdf/0402/0402_Article2.pdf. Retrieved August 28, 2009.

[edit] External links

[yale-0] Multiplex Developmental Disorder, Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine

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