EDITORIAL THE HISTORY OF AUTISM IN THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE 20TH CENTURY: NEW AND REVISED Michael M. FITZGERALD Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland E-mail:profmichaelfitzgerald@gmail.com Received: 27-November-2018 Revised: 29-January-2019 Accepted: 31-January-2019 Online first 1-February-2019 Introduction The history of autism is very complicated. It has changed hugely in recent years. This is […]

Medical Aspects of disability HEALTH CONDITION IN PERSONS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS Vladimir TRAJKOVSKI Institute of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Philosophy, University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia E-mail:vladotra@fzf.ukim.edu.mk Received: 20-October-2018 Revised: 23-December-2018 Accepted: 25-December-2018 Online first 29-December-2018 Introduction Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are a heterogeneous group of complex neurodevelopmental […]

Neuropsychological Research THE RELATION BETWEEN A DEVELOPMENTAL AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL SCREENING TEST USED IN PUBLIC CHILD DAYCARE CENTERS IN BRAZIL   Chieh-Yu CHEN1, Luis ANUNCIAÇÃO2, Jane SQUIRES3, Alberto FILGUEIRAS4, Jesus LANDEIRA-FERNANDEZ5 1National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan 2Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 3University of Oregon, United States 4Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil 5Pontifical […]

Neuropsychological Research ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESSORS IN DISSOCIATIVE PHENOMENOLOGY   Sushma RATHEE1, Ajay KUMAR2 1Department of Psychology, Mahrishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India 2Department of Clinical Psychology, Dr. MV Govindaswamy Building, Nimhans, Bengaluru, India E-mail: ajaycog2010@gmail.com Received: 22-August-2018 Revised: 30-September-2018 Accepted: 20-October-2018 Online first 22-October-2018 Introduction Dissociative disorders include a wide variety of syndromes whose […]

Medical Aspects of disability SEXUAL HEALTH ISSUES IN WOMEN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM   Monica PARCHOMIUK Univeristy of Maria Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin, Poland E-mail: mparchomiuk@o2.pl Received: 06-September-2018 Revised: 30-September-2018 Accepted: 05-October-2018 Online first 06-October-2018 1. Introduction Sexual health of people with intellectual disability (ID) is more and more often the subject […]