autism spectrum disorderadulthoodclinicianstherapyassessmentAutism is sometimes missed in childhood and can be associated with co-occurring conditions (e.g., attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or anxiety) and lower quality of life in adulthood. The present paper seeks to provide concise and up-to...
Autism spectrum disorder symptoms from ages 2 to 19 years: Implications for diagnosing adolescents and young adults Autism ResearchBal VH, Kim SH, Fok M, Lord C. 2019. Autism spectrum disorder symptoms from ages 2 to 19 years: implications for diagnosing adolescents... VH Bal,So‐Hyun Kim,M...
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder – this means that it is a chronic brain problem – a difficulty that the brain has with processing certain kinds of information. In the case of autism, typically the greatest difficulty is dealing with social interaction. What are the common signs and sym...
This age group was hit hard like a truck by the isolation, anxiety, and general unwellness caused by lockdowns, so it's no surprise that more teens and young adults turned to TikTok to learn about mental health disorders and to self-diagnose conditions like autism, ADHD, borderline person...
Genomic technologies have had a greater impact on paediatrics than on many other fields of medicine, and this discipline is leading the way in the implementation of clinical genomics. Appropriate use of whole-exome sequencing (WES) or whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has the potential to curtail th...
tailed threshold for determining a patient is significantly abnormal (McIntosh & Rittmo,2021). Such requirements reassure researchers that these individuals are functioning abnormally in a specific domain, given the unlikely chance that a neurotypical individual would perform so poorly (Young et al.,...
For example, it is normal for preschoolers to have short attention spans and be unable to stick with one activity. Even inolder childrenand teens, attention spans can vary throughout the day. Young children also are naturally energetic. They often have plenty of energy left long after their ...
subtleties. Anywhere from 35 percent to 85 percent of mental health conditions go undetected and undiagnosed, according to the World Health Organization, depending on where you live in the world. Needless to say, in order to treat depression, Alzheimer’s, or autism, it must first be detected...
In certain cases, the neurological condition described above is a brain tumor, a brain metastasis, a spinal cord injury, schizophrenia, epilepsy, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson's disease, Autism, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, or stroke. In an additional aspect, the ...
Journal of Autism & Developmental DisordersHeinrich M, Bohm J, Sappok T. Diagnosing Autism in Adults with Intellectual Disability: Validation of the DiBAS-R in an Independent Sample. J Autism Dev Disord 2018; 48(2): 341-50. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3336-5] [PMID: ...