Mental health challenges faced by autistic people

MC Lai - Nature human behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
Mental health challenges impede the well-being of autistic people. This Review outlines
contributing neurodevelopmental and physical health conditions, rates and developmental …

Comparison of social cognition and neurocognition in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis

SU Ozbek, E Sut, E Bora - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Background This report aimed to compare group differences in social and non-social
cognition in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and schizophrenia, and examine the influence …

Risk of psychosis in autism spectrum disorder individuals exposed to psychosocial stressors: A 9‐year chart review study

R Bortoletto, L Bassani, M Garzitto, M Lamberti… - Autism …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Psychosocial stressors have been suggested to precipitate psychotic episodes in patients
with pre‐existing psychosis and otherwise healthy subjects. However, such a risk has never …

Profound autism: An imperative diagnosis

LE Wachtel, J Escher, A Halladay, A Lutz… - Pediatric …, 2024 - pediatric.theclinics.com
In 2021, the Lancet Commission of international clinicians and treatment providers,
researchers, advocates, and parents convened to address the wide range of needs of …

Beyond imagination: Sorting out and treating psychosis in the context of autism spectrum disorder

C Gesi, L Giacovelli, YL Reibman… - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the last decades, growing caseness for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been
observed, owing to the diagnostic accretion of low-impairment forms, over and above other …

Integrating neuropsychological research on autism and psychosis to improve clinical outcomes

R Schalbroeck, JH Foss-Feig, A Jutla… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Although the clinical phenotypes of autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders are
considered distinct, there are substantial areas of overlap between both diagnoses. The two …

Autism diagnosis in females by eating disorder professionals

MA Parsons - Journal of Eating Disorders, 2023 - Springer
Importance Autism and eating disorders cooccur at high rates, with autism impacting the
efficacy of eating disorder treatments and outcomes. Females are underdiagnosed with …

Associations between paternal autism traits and parenting from the Japan environment and children's study

A Sakakihara, T Masumoto, Y Kurozawa - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
There are few studies on the parenting of fathers with autism traits. To investigate this issue,
we examined the type of parenting performed by fathers with autism traits using data from a …

The cerebellum gets social: evidence from an exploratory study of cerebellar, neurodevelopmental, and psychiatric disorders

G Olivito, L Siciliano, S Clausi, M Lupo, R Baiocco… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Social prediction is a key feature of social cognition (SC), a function in which the modulating
role of the cerebellum is recognized. Accordingly, cerebellar alterations are reported in …

Clinical, cognitive, and functional characteristics of recent-onset psychosis with autistic features: A 2-year longitudinal study

JH Jeong, SW Kim, JC Yu, SH Won, SH Lee… - Schizophrenia …, 2024 - Elsevier
Though categorized as separate illnesses, schizophrenia and autism are known to exhibit
shared characteristics. This study explored the distinctions in clinical, cognitive, and …