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Hugues Lamothe1, Ophélia Godin2, Chloé Stengel3
1Sorbonne University, Brain and Spine Institute, INSERM UMR_S 1127/UMR 7225, 57 boulevard de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris, France; AP-HP, Albert Chenevier University Hospital, University Paris Est Créteil, 40 rue de Mesly, 94000 Créteil, France.
Abstract:
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a very heterogeneous disorder. Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) comorbidity, frequent in ASD, could be useful to define a specific ASD subtype. Our objective was to explore if adults with ASD and comorbid OCD could present a specific clinical profile of ASD in 89 high functioning-adult ASD patients. We found that adults with ASD and comorbid OCD showed a lower verbal IQ and a more severe impairments in social cognition. ASD with comorbid OCD present a specific clinical profile which could constitute a possible subtype of ASD.
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