An extremely low prevalence of autism in Quito, Ecuador

The title of this post is taken from the paper by Laura Dekkers and colleagues [1] (open-access) who sought to " get an estimate of AS...

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Nearly 13% of children with a DSM-IV diagnosis?

I had tweeted about the paper by Sandra Petresco and colleagues  [1] (open-access here ) a while back as being the source of the sentence: ...

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Pain predicting sleep problems in autism

Not so long ago I talked about the paper from Smith and colleagues  [1] on autism and obstacles to medical [comorbidity] diagnosis and treat...

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The potential impact of DSM-V on autism numbers

I don't really want to get too bogged down with the various discussions which have passed to-and-fro when it came to the expected impact...

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Autism prevalence across the DSMs

IMFAR (International Meeting For Autism Research) is probably the biggest meeting of minds conferences for autism. I have, unfortunately, ne...

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