Aspergers dropped as psychiatric manual is revised: THE term 'Asperger's disorder' has been dropped from one of the world's most influential psychiatric manuals. And abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be given the scientific-sounding diagnosis 'DMDD'. But 'dyslexia' and other learning disorders remain. The revisions come in the first major rewrite in nearly 20 years of the American Psychiatric Association's 'Diagnostic and Statistical Manual' (DSM), approved by the board on Saturday ...
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