Multiple complex developmental disorder (MCDD): Did we throw the baby out with the bathwater too fast? A systematic review.

Valerio ZaccariaIgnazio ArdizzoneFrancesco PisaniAndrea RaballoMichele Poletti

Published in: Clinical child psychology and psychiatry (2024)

Overall, these results showed how progressive changes in diagnostic criteria over time led MCDD to be abandoned as nosographic construct, leaving perhaps a diagnostic void between autism and psychotic disorders that needs to be further studied. A systematic review on the Multiple Complex Developmental Disorder (MCDD): a forgotten diagnosis between autism and schizophrenia.

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