CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER: STUDY OF CHILDHOOD PSYCHOSIS

儿童精神病学临床研究中心是一群科学家 从事全面、多学科和互动的研究 严重精神病的病因及防治 童年。正在研究的诊断类别是早期婴儿自闭症， 儿童期起病的广泛性障碍和注意力缺陷障碍(ADD)。 流行病学，遗传学，神经药理学，电生理学， 神经行为、语言、认知和社会行为研究 是在该中心进行的。该中心也是一个跨学科的 面向医学博士和博士的研究性培训资源，以及作为社区资源 以获取有关上述障碍的信息和咨询。 1984年的研究项目包括： 1.神经行为和电生理的多实验室研究 精神分裂症、分裂型患者信息加工缺陷的相关性研究 并增加主题。 2.精神分裂症纵向病程的多实验室研究 儿童，特别关注精神分裂症和自闭症 后来患上精神分裂症的儿童。这些研究包括 老年人家庭精神疾病发病情况调查分析 儿童，以及家庭社会因素对儿童的影响 结果。 3.结构式访谈在严重精神疾病诊断中的应用研究 学龄前和学龄儿童的精神病理学。 4.儿童早期语言和认知发展的团体研究 患有婴儿自闭症和儿童期发作性广泛性发育障碍。 5.多项单一实验室研究，包括：半球研究 语义记忆的专门化；韵律和信息的研究 自闭症和精神分裂症儿童的处理能力；发展 对儿童使用的“思维障碍指数”的研究；遗传学和 婴儿自闭症的免疫血液学因素和惊吓的研究 作为衡量自闭症儿童脑干处理情况的一项指标。 在目前正在开发的新项目中，有一项是由多个实验室共同进行的研究 一种新的儿童严重精神病理学分类系统。 这个项目将成为研究的一个特别焦点。 在续期期间。

The Child Psychiatry Clinical Research Center is an assembly of scientists engaged in comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and interactive research into the etiology, prevention and treatment of serious psychopathology in childhood. Diagnostic categories under study are early infantile autism, childhood onset pervasive disorder and attention deficit disorder (ADD). Epidemiological, genetic, neuropharmacological electrophysiological, neurobehavioral, linguistic, cognitive, and sociobehavioral studies are carried out in the Center. The Center also serves as an interdisciplinary research trainng resource for MD's and Phd's, and as a community resource for information and consultation for the above disorders. Research projects in 1984 include: 1. A multi-laboratory study of the neurobehavioral and electrophysiological correlates of information processing deficits in schizophrenic, schizotypal and ADD subjects. 2. A multilaboratory study of the longitudinal course of psychosis in children, with a particular focus on schizophrenia, and upon autistic children who later become schizophrenic. These studies include investigation of the incidence of mental illness in the families of the children, and of the effect of family social factors as predictors of outcome. 3. A study of the use of structured interviews for diagnosis of serious psychopathology in pre-school and school age children. 4. A group study of early language and cognitive development in children with infantile autism and childhood onset pervasive development disorder. 5. Numerous single laboratory studies including: study of hemispheric specialization for semantic memory; study of the prosodic and information processing capacities of autistic and schizophrenic children; development of a 'thought disorder index' for use with children; study of genetic and immuno-hematological factors in infantile autism; and study of the 'startle response' as a measure of brain-stem processing in autistic children. Among new projects under development at present is a multi-laboratory study of a new system of classification of serious psychopathology in children. It is intended that this project will become a particular focus of research during the renewal period.