21,28 Prolonged or intense exposure to severe stressors has been found to result in a dysregulated HPA-axis and to produce functional alterations in certain brain regions implicated in the development of psychiatric disorders, such as the hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex.21 It is thus...
in spirit, the changes from the DSM-IV to the DSM-5 [5]. First, the ICD-10 does not have a specific grouping for neurodevelopmental disorders and uses slightly different terminology for the specific conditions that have been included within it —‘mental retardation...