title: Infantile autism.
abstract: The authors define infantile autism, giving its time of manifestation, clinical development, differential diagnosis, management, and treatment. They hypothesize that the cause of autism probably will not be found in some consistent gross alteration in brain size or gross structure but that autistic children have some generalized deficit of neurologic function that is common to most or all cerebral neurons.
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement; D011379:Prognosis; D012677:Sensation