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Infantile Autism in Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Paul E. McQuaid
Paul E. McQuaid*
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin 7, Ireland
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Summary

A pair of MZ male twins concordant for early infantile autism (E.I.A.) is presented. A distinction is drawn between E.I.A. and infantile psychosis (I.P.) with associated mental retardation as a guide to prognosis and the necessity to provide suitable social training and education. The relevance of aetiology is discussed, and the importance of abnormal ante-natal history and delivery status, even in cases with strong genetic predisposition, is noted.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 127 , Issue 6 , December 1975 , pp. 530 - 534
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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