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Diagnosis and epidemiology are core topics in psychiatry and developmental medicine. There can be no clinical medical work without diagnosis. There can be no medical epidemiological study of psychiatric disorder without a consideration of diagnostic boundaries.
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Gillberg, C.L. (2011). Diagnostic Systems. In: Matson, J., Sturmey, P. (eds) International Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8065-6_2
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