The term autism (from the Greek autos, meaning “self”) was coined in 1911 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who used it to describe withdrawal into one’s inner world, a phenomenon he observed in individuals with schizophrenia. The use of the word autism to describe the condition as ...
with some research suggesting that up to a third of women with eating disorders may have (often undiagnosed) autism (Mandy and Tchanturia2015; Westwood and Tchanturia2017). Autistic individuals with eating disorders also tend to have more severe symptoms and show a poorer response to ...
Although autism has long been recognized as a separate diagnostic entity from schizophrenia, both disorders share clinical features. Childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS), considered a rare and severe form of schizophrenia, frequently presents with premorbid developmental abnormalities. This prepsychotic ...
Since autism was first described, there has been an ongoing discussion concerning the connections, if any, with schizophrenia. Once thought to be the same disorder, autistic disorder and childhood schizophrenia were in the 1970s shown to be distinguishable by symptomatology and age of onset. However...
Increased electroencephalography (EEG) frequency in gamma bands and alterations in sleep patterns are detected in patients with Schizophrenia, ADHD, and Autism. Studying electrical activity within the brain are helping researchers understand neurobiological mechanisms that underlie clinical symptoms. ...
Individuals with schizophrenia present symptoms that are generally grouped in three categories: positive symptoms (e.g., hallucinations), negative symptoms (e.g., affective blunting) and cognitive impairment (e.g., working memory deficits)63,64. In addition, sensorimotor gating defects are one of ...
Hence, the main aim of the current study using MRS is to determine whether bumetanide could regulate GABA/glutamate ratio in the brain and reduce the severity of the autistic symptoms in young children with ASD. In DSM-5, sensory symptoms are the core diagnostic feature of ASD, which has ...
with ASD develop epilepsy by the time they reach adulthood. While people with schizophrenia may show some autistic-like behavior, their symptoms usually do not appear until the late teens or early adulthood. Most people with schizophrenia also have hallucinations and delusions, which are not found ...
M Pathania1, EC Davenport1, J Muir, DF Sheehan, G López-Doménech and JT Kittler Copy number variation (CNV) at the 15q11.2 region has been identified as a significant risk locus for neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia (SCZ) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD)....
Advanced paternal and grandpaternal age and schizophrenia: a three-generation perspective. Schizophr Res 2011; 133: 120–124. 55 O'Roak BJ, Deriziotis P, Lee C, Vives L, Schwartz JJ, Girirajan S et al. Exome sequencing in sporadic autism spectrum disorders identifies severe de novo ...