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PROGRESSIVE DISINTEGRATIVE PSYCHOSIS OF CHILDHOOD
Author(s) -
Corbett John,
Harris Ruth,
Taylor Eric,
Trimble Michael
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1977.tb00433.x
Subject(s) - psychosis , psychiatry , dementia , psychology , pediatrics , medicine , disease , pathology
Summary The literature concerning dementia and disintegrative psychosis in childhood is reviewed. Two cases with different neurodegenerative disorders presenting with late juvenile onset psychiatric symptoms arc described. There appears little point in retaining the eponymous syndromes of de Sanctis and Heller. The diagnostic category of Progressive Disintegrative Psychosis is appropriate to describe the clinical psychiatric picture in these children. Because of the rarity of such conditions further collaboration between child psychiatrists, paediatiric neurologists and neuropathologists is needed to delineate further the psychiatric syndromes associated with the neurodegenerative disorders.