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Reactive Attachment Disorder

"Reactive Attachment Disorder" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Markedly disturbed and developmentally inappropriate social relatedness that begins before age 5 and is associated with grossly pathological child care. The child may persistently fail to initiate and respond to social interactions in a developmentally appropriate way (inhibited type) or there may be a pattern of diffuse attachments with nondiscriminate sociability (disinhibited type). (From DSM-IV, 1994)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Reactive Attachment Disorder" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Reactive Attachment Disorder" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 27 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2011
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.