title: [Current approaches to understanding of autism in childhood].
abstract: The authors analyse the trends in the study of childhood autism in the XX century and state of the art in view of nosology, systematics, clinical phenomenology, etiology and pathogenesis of autistic disorders. Mental Health Research Center of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences proposes a new classification of autism in children basing on the study of 500 cases. Each form of autistic disorders is characterized in clinicopsychopathological and pathogenetic aspects. The phenomenon of autism in childhood psychopathology is universal, dependent on peculiarities of ontogenesis of the nervous system, individual development of a child, genetic and environmental factors.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Tiganov
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Bashina
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D012426:Russia