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Testing Sensory and Multisensory Function in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Published on: April 22, 2015
Assessing for autism in adult psychiatry
Samuel Tromans1, Pushpal Desarkar2
1Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; and Adult Learning Disability Service, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.
Abstract:
This editorial discusses a study by Nyrenius and colleagues in which they investigated rates of co-occurring psychiatric conditions and functioning in a population of adults referred to a Swedish psychiatric out-patient clinic, comparing those meeting DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for autism with their non-autistic peers.
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