Autism spectrum disorder often co-occurs with other psychiatric disorders. Although a high prevalence of autistic-like traits/symptoms has been identified in the pediatric psychiatric population of normal intelligence, there are no reports from adult psychiatric population. This study examined whether there is a greater prevalence of autistic-like traits/symptoms in patients with adult-onset ps...

BACKGROUND Although Autistic Disorder is associated with several congenital conditions, the cause for most cases is unknown. The present study was undertaken to determine whether breastfeeding or the use of infant formula supplemented with docosahexaenoic acid and arachidonic acid is associated with Autistic Disorder. The hypothesis is that breastfeeding and use of infant formula supplemented w...

BACKGROUND Lack of social interaction, which is characteristically seen in people with autistic-spectrum disorder, may be caused by malfunctioning of the frontostriatal reward systems. However, no reported in vivo brain imaging studies have investigated reward mechanisms in autistic-spectrum disorder. AIMS To investigate functional brain activation during reward feedback in people with autist...

Asperger's disorder is a pervasive developmental disorder that shares similar features of social impairment disorder, restricted interests, and repetitive behaviors with autistic disorder. Although both Asperger's disorder and autistic disorder persist into adulthood, autistic disorder is usually apparent before the age of 3, while Asperger's disorder usually manifests itself at preschool age. ...

Background: Parents in different cultures show different psychological functioning when caring for a child with chronic disability such as autistic disorder. Arabs are united in a shared culture that is considered substantially different from their western counterparts. Nevertheless, no investigations regarding the experience of parenting a child with autistic disorder have been made in the Ara...

To address a possible environmental contribution to autism, we carried out a retrospective study on urinary porphyrin levels, a biomarker of environmental toxicity, in 269 children with neurodevelopmental and related disorders referred to a Paris clinic (2002-2004), including 106 with autistic disorder. Urinary porphyrin levels determined by high-performance liquid chromatography were compared ...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported the association between advanced paternal age at birth and the risk of autistic-spectrum disorder in offspring, including offspring with intellectual disability. AIMS To test whether an association between advanced paternal age at birth is found in offspring with high-functioning autistic-spectrum disorder (i.e. offspring without intellectual disabili...

This is a reprint of an article printed in the February – April issue (2005) of Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive / Current Psychology of Cognition, volume 23 (1 – 2), pp 3 – 33. Motion perception and autistic spectrum disorder 2 Abstract Recent evidence has indicated that some children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) show reduced ability to detect visual motion. The data suggest that this...

Background and Objective: Background: The present study investigates the relationship between attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and the severity of symptoms in children with autistic spectrum disorder. Methods: The study was conducted on 80 patients with autistic spectrum disorder visiting Child Psychiatric Clinic of Tehran Psychiatric Institute. The severity of autistic sympt...

conclusions the results showed that despite the simultaneous high prevalence of sleep disturbances and sensory processing disorders in children with autism, there isn’t a significant relationship between the two conditions among these children. background autism is a neurological disorder that limits communication, socialization, and participation of children in symbolic play. sensory processin...