Diagnostic Criteria for Autism
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چکیده
Brain disorders, including developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases affect millions of individuals worldwide. In addition to the human suffering they cause, brain disorders also carry significant economic costs in terms of lost earnings, direct health care costs and disability benefits. For example, autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) represent an enormous disease burden with estimates of $3.2 million lifetime cost per case which easily translates to $35 billion per year in the US alone (Ganz, 2007). Obviously, better screening methods for ASDs might lead to substantially higher estimates of disease burden in the near future. Against this background, this brief essay summarizes recent attempts to understand the pathophysiology of autism including, treatments available for this particular developmental disease and our current ability to properly diagnose autism.
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