Autism

From connections between bvFTD and primary psychiatric disorders to the impact of posttraumatic neuroendocrine dysfunction on recovery, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

More girls are belatedly receiving an autism diagnosis.

Connections between autism risk, sleep disturbances, insomnia risk genes and circadian pathways were analyzed.

Here’s how online appointments are lowering anxiety among patients and families.

How can we help this unique patient population thrive? Experts weigh in at the 2022 APA Annual Meeting.

It’s time to take a closer look at neurodiversity.

How one mother of a child with autism helped countless others better understand the autistic experience.

Recent research suggests females with autism may need their own set of parameters on which to be measured.

Autism spectrum disorder often evades formal diagnosis until a child is 4 years or older, but these artificial intelligence and telehealth systems may be able to help facilitate diagnosis.

Is neurodivergence to be cured or is it a healthy part of our social ecology?

Cannabis is prescribed as a treatment for autism in 14 states. Is it the wonder drug patients and families have been waiting for?

Patients who are report social phobia are unlikely to speak out for themselves. For them, confrontations with their boss or coworkers are even worse than water-cooler conversations. That is where psychiatrists can help.

Children with autism spectrum disorder have special educational needs, but with proper guidance they can flourish, even during a pandemic.

What happens when a clinician has to give herself news she does not want to hear?

The authors discuss abusive disciplinary practices that continue to this day despite considerable evidence to the contrary and share thoughts and implications for psychiatrists.

Dad excelled at his craft and was the natural choice for promotion to supervisor of the machine shop when the incumbent retired. But the company told him it just wouldn’t "look right" to have a person with only an 8th-grade education.

What is the link between restrictive anorexia, anorexia nervosa, and binge eating disorder and ASD? This study sheds some light.

While the core features of autism impair functioning, a significant source of further impairment is comorbid psychiatric disorders.

We cannot protect our patients without protecting our planet. This means a personal and professional commitment to green our activities by considering the carbon effects of how we do our work.

ECT has been found effective in mitigating the deleterious consequences of SIB.

Although Asperger disorder is now included as part of the overall autism spectrum disorder, some say Pandora’s box has been opened.

On the association between symptoms of autism spectrum disorder with environmental toxin exposure.

Setting the record straight on the burgeoning field of reproductive psychiatry.

An expert discusses the clinical, biological, and genetic components of de novo mutations and autism spectrum disorders.

This psychiatrist takes notice when he hears public remarks by celebrities on their alleged psychiatric illnesses. A perfect example is when Jerry Seinfeld claimed he was “a bit autistic” to Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News.

Innovative approaches that advance our understanding of the mechanisms that confer risk for psychiatric illness in youths is the focus.

The aggregation of psychiatric diagnoses in individual psychiatric patients, ie, the presence of multiple disorders in one individual, is a curious and sometimes disturbing observation in psychiatry.

In a new study, researchers found an absolute risk of 4.42% of valproate use during pregnancy with autism spectrum disorder and an absolute risk of 2.50% for childhood autism.

Traumatic brain injury, criminal responsibility, traumatic stress, and autism spectrum/neurodevelopmental disorders slideshow

A recently published NIH study of 112 children suggested that some children might possibly outgrow autism.