Christopher Gillberg is professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
Christopher Gillberg
Professor
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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ESSENCE: From defined categories to broad understanding
Clinicians should place children under age 5 who have developmental delay into a broad diagnostic category, called ESSENCE, which may then resolve into any number of individual diagnoses over time, says Christopher Gillberg.
ESSENCE: From defined categories to broad understanding
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8 October 2013 | 8 min read
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