It emphasizes clinical correlations through boxed case studies of classic disorders and explains clinical findings in terms of the underlying physiologic principles.
Bipolar spectrum incorporates classic bipolar disorder (manic + depressive episode), bipolar II disorder (hypomanic + depressive episode), and bipolar III disorder that is not an official diagnosis recognized by psychiatric associations.
While the prevalence of "classic" autistic disorder was relatively higher among Arab patients, both Asperger's disorder and PDD-NOS were relatively more prevalent in the Jewish patients.
Graves' disease is another classic autoimmune disorder.
For such patients, the classic Freudian disorder carries a new economy twist: divestiture anxiety.
Almost everyone with Asperger's also fits the profile of the more classic autistic disorder.
Few people or physicians would miss classic bipolar disorder, with its cyclic episodes of severe depression and full-blown mania.
The evidence is not yet sufficient to conclude that most presentations of juvenile mania are continuous with the classic adult disorder".
A classic brain disorder known as maple syrup disease (because of the sweet odor of a victim's urine) went untreated 20 years ago as a mystery scourge of the Amish.
The evidence is not yet sufficient to conclude that most presentations of juvenile mania are continuous with the classic adult disorder". Biederman and Wozniak have given the diagnosis to preschool children and have included them in drug trials.
