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Robin Friedlander

MB, ChB, FRCPC

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Psychiatrist and Head, Neuropsychiatry Clinic, BC Children's Hospital

More than half of individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) demonstrate self-injury or aggression. Prevalence estimates for self-injury range from 33% to 71% in ASD. Assuming the lowest frequency of approximately 33% of kids with Autism displaying some form of SIB, means that approximately 3000 children with Autism in BC display some form of SIB.

Our clinical experience suggests that we can make a major impact in the lives of these patients. Integration of medical, psychiatric and behavioural specialists is the key to successful treatments that can prevent the SIB from becoming chronic and intractable.

Academic Affiliations

Clinical Professor, Neurodevelopmental Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Research Theme: Brain, Behaviour & Development
Research Group(s): Neurodevelopmental and Neurological Disorders; Pain and Stress

Contact Information

Location

4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6H 3N1

(604) 875-2207

rfriedlander@cw.bc.ca

Iron Deficiency and Restless Sleep/Wake Behaviors in Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Mental Health Conditions

Nutrients

Ipsiroglu, O.S. and Pandher, P.K. and Hill, O. and McWilliams, S. and Braschel, M. and Edwards, K. and Friedlander, R. and Keys, E. and Kuo, C. and Lewis, M.S. and Richardson, A. and Wagner, A.L. and Wensley, D.

DOI: 10.3390/nu16183064

Characteristics of children with autism and unspecified intellectual developmental disorder (intellectual disability) presenting with severe self-injurious behaviours

International Journal of Developmental Disabilities

Fong, A. and Friedlander, R. and Richardson, A. and Allen, K. and Zhang, Q.

DOI: 10.1080/20473869.2022.2113321

Autism today

British Columbia Medical Journal

Friedlander, R. and Ooi, A.

Psychiatric Manifestations in Patients with Biopterin Defects

Neuropediatrics

Parfyonov, M. and Friedlander, R. and Banno, B. and Elbe, D. and Horvath, G.

DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1742323

Lifesaving Electroconvulsive Therapy for a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Severe Self-Injurious Behavior, and Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

Journal of ECT

Gonzlez-Romero, M.F. and Avina-Galindo, A.M. and Elbe, D. and Friedlander, R. and Vila-Rodriguez, F.

DOI: 10.1097/YCT.0000000000000598

Falling through the cracks: How service gaps leave children with neurodevelopmental disorders and mental health difficulties without the care they need

British Columbia Medical Journal

Ono, E. and Friedlander, R. and Salih, T.

Reply: Atypical Antipsychotic Use in Treating Adolescents and Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Robin Friedlander and Susan Lazar and Joseph Klancnik

DOI: 10.1177/070674370204700817

11 / 2016

Vitamin E in aging persons with Down syndrome: A randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial.

Neurology

Sano M and Aisen PS and Andrews HF and Tsai WY and Lai F and Dalton AJ and International Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease Consortium

DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002714 PubMed: 27164691

05 / 2016

Psychosis

Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Across the Lifespan

Friedlander, R.I. and Klancnik, J.M.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18096-0_128

Early onset psychosis in youth with intellectual disabilities

Contemporary Issues in Intellectual Disabilities

Friedlander, R. and Klancnik, J. and Donnelly, T.

Mental health assessment of children and adolescents with learning disabilities

Journal of Public Mental Health

Friedlander, R. and Moss, S.

DOI: 10.1108/17465729200900007

A novel syndrome with psychiatric features and review of malformation syndromes with psychiatric disorders

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Du Souich, C. and Austin, J.C. and Friedlander, R. and Boerkoel, C.F.

DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.32709

Characterization of a new X-linked mental retardation syndrome with microcephaly, cortical malformation, and thin habitus

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Du Souich, C. and Chou, A. and Yin, J. and Oh, T. and Nelson, T.N. and Hurlburt, J. and Arbour, L. and Friedlander, R. and McGillivray, B.C. and Tyshchenko, N. and Rump, A. and Poskitt, K.J. and Demos, M.K. and Van Allen, M.I. and Boerkoel, C.F.

DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33071

The other dual diagnosis: Developmental disability and mental health disorders

British Columbia Medical Journal

Tang, B. and Byrne, C. and Friedlander, R. and McKibbin, D. and Riley, M. and Thibeault, A.

Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach.

Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent

Friedlander R

02 / 2007

Crying as a Sign, Symptom & a Signal.

Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent

Friedlander R

02 / 2006

Mental health for persons with intellectual disability in the post-deinstitutionalization era: experiences from British Columbia.

The Israel journal of psychiatry and related sciences

Friedlander R

PubMed: 17338447

01 / 2006

Mental health for persons with intellectual disability in the post-deinstitutionalization era: Experiences from British Columbia

Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences

Friedlander, R.

Problems and questions in the dual diagnosis of schizophrenia and intellectual disability [1]

Mental Health Aspects of Developmental Disabilities

Friedlander, R. and Donnelly, T.

Outcomes in Neurodevelopmental and Genetic Disorders.

The Canadian child and adolescent psychiatry review = La revue canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent

Friedlander R

05 / 2005

Early onset schizophrenia in a young woman with mild intellectual disability and unbalanced chromosomal translocation

Mental Health Aspects of Developmental Disabilities

Boulding, R. and Friedlander, R.I. and Jurenka, S. and Hrynchak, M. and Honer, W.

Early-onset psychosis in youth with intellectual disability

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Friedlander, R.I. and Donnelly, T.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2004.00622.x

Early-onset schizophrenia in children with mental retardation: Diagnostic reliability and stability of clinical features

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Lee, P. and Moss, S. and Friedlander, R. and Donnelly, T. and Honer, W.

DOI: 10.1097/00004583-200302000-00009

Asperger Syndrome.

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Friedlander R

01 / 2002

Obsessional slowness in Down's syndrome

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Charlot, L. and Fox, S. and Friedlander, R.

DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2788.2002.00419.x

ECT: Use in individuals with mental retardation

Journal of ECT

Friedlander, R.I. and Solomons, K.

DOI: 10.1097/00124509-200203000-00011

Re: Atypical antipsychotic use in treating adolescents and young adults with developmental disabilities [1] (multiple letters)

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Bradley, E.A. and Lunsky, Y. and Berg, J.M. and Brooks-Hill, R.W. and O'Leary, D.A. and Harman, K.E. and Korossy, M. and Friedlander, R. and Lazar, S. and Klancnik, J.

DOI: 10.1177/070674370204700816

Acquired childhood aphasia with convulsive disorder (Landau-Kleffner syndrome). A case report.

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde

PubMed: 1689510

02 / 1990

Acquired childhood aphasia with convulsive disorder (Landau-Kleffner syndrome). A case report

South African Medical Journal

Penn, C. and Friedlander, R.I. and Saling, M.M.

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Robin Friedlander

MB, ChB, FRCPC

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital Psychiatrist and Head, Neuropsychiatry Clinic, BC Children's Hospital

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Iron Deficiency and Restless Sleep/Wake Behaviors in Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Mental Health Conditions

Characteristics of children with autism and unspecified intellectual developmental disorder (intellectual disability) presenting with severe self-injurious behaviours

Autism today

Psychiatric Manifestations in Patients with Biopterin Defects

Lifesaving Electroconvulsive Therapy for a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Severe Self-Injurious Behavior, and Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

Falling through the cracks: How service gaps leave children with neurodevelopmental disorders and mental health difficulties without the care they need

Reply: Atypical Antipsychotic Use in Treating Adolescents and Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Vitamin E in aging persons with Down syndrome: A randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial.

Psychosis

Early onset psychosis in youth with intellectual disabilities

Mental health assessment of children and adolescents with learning disabilities

A novel syndrome with psychiatric features and review of malformation syndromes with psychiatric disorders

Characterization of a new X-linked mental retardation syndrome with microcephaly, cortical malformation, and thin habitus

The other dual diagnosis: Developmental disability and mental health disorders

Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach.

Crying as a Sign, Symptom & a Signal.

Mental health for persons with intellectual disability in the post-deinstitutionalization era: experiences from British Columbia.

Mental health for persons with intellectual disability in the post-deinstitutionalization era: Experiences from British Columbia

Problems and questions in the dual diagnosis of schizophrenia and intellectual disability [1]

Outcomes in Neurodevelopmental and Genetic Disorders.

Early onset schizophrenia in a young woman with mild intellectual disability and unbalanced chromosomal translocation

Early-onset psychosis in youth with intellectual disability

Early-onset schizophrenia in children with mental retardation: Diagnostic reliability and stability of clinical features

Asperger Syndrome.

Obsessional slowness in Down's syndrome

ECT: Use in individuals with mental retardation

Re: Atypical antipsychotic use in treating adolescents and young adults with developmental disabilities [1] (multiple letters)

Acquired childhood aphasia with convulsive disorder (Landau-Kleffner syndrome). A case report.

Acquired childhood aphasia with convulsive disorder (Landau-Kleffner syndrome). A case report

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Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Psychiatrist and Head, Neuropsychiatry Clinic, BC Children's Hospital