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...
Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia: What is the Relationship? (cover story)Presents the overlapping features of autism and childhood schizophrenia.BrownAnneBrown University Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter
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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)....
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Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a chronic mental illness and among the most debilitating conditions encountered in medical practice. A recent landmark SCZ study of the protein-coding regions of the genome identified a causal role for ten genes and a concentration
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized mainly by social and sensory-motor abnormal and repetitive behavior patterns. Over hundreds of genes and thousands of genetic variants were reported to be highly penetrant and causative of ASD. Many of thes
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Schizophrenia in male adults starts on average 4–5 years earlier than in females. The lifetime risk for both sexes is equal. It is still unknown, whe
Similar to other health care sectors, mental health has moved towards the secondary prevention, with the effort to detect and treat mental disorders as early as possible. However, converging evidence sheds new light on the potential of primary preventive