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Christopher Gillberg

Professor, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Christopher Gillberg is professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

October 2013

ESSENCE: From defined categories to broad understanding

by  /  8 October 2013

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. 

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