ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2014
Autism plus versus autism pure.
Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Efficacy and Safety of Bumetanide in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Updated Meta-analysis.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Slower Processing Speed in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-analytic Investigation of Time-Based Tasks.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Pooled it
- Somatic, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Comorbidities in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A Narrative Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Association Between Autism and PTSD Among Adult Psychiatric Outpatients.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Predictors of Adaptive Functioning in Emerging Adults with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Dimensional Neuroimaging Endophenotypes: Neurobiological Representations of Disease Heterogeneity Through Machine Learning.Biological psychiatry · 2024Review
- The Use of CGH Arrays for Identifying Copy Number Variations in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Brain sciences · 2024Article
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- From personification abuse to normal expression: emotional treatment for language disorders in schools.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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- Exploring Change in Children's and Art Therapists' Behavior during 'Images of Self', an Art Therapy Program for Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Repeated Case Study Design.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The changing faces of autism: The fluctuating international diagnostic criteria and the resulting inclusion and exclusion-A Norwegian perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
- Ethical dimensions of translational developmental neuroscience research in autism.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2021Review
- Children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders show cognitive heterogeneity and require a person-centered approach.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Research, Clinical, and Sociological Aspects of Autism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Autoimmune Encephalitis and Autism Spectrum Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Parents' views and experiences of the autism spectrum disorder diagnosis of their young child: a longitudinal interview study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2020Article
- Resolving the Synaptic versus Developmental Dichotomy of Autism Risk Genes.Trends in neurosciences · 2020Review
- Autism Heterogeneity in a Densely Sampled U.S. Population: Results From the First 1,000 Participants in the RI-CART Study.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2020Article
- Comorbidity Matters: Social Visual Attention in a Comparative Study of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Their Comorbidity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
The reported prevalence of autism is going up and up. We propose that some-even much-of the increase in the rate of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is driven by "Autism Plus". Autism Plus refers to autism with comorbidities (including intellectual developmental disorder, language disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), and this is what is now being diagnosed by clinicians as ASD. In clinical practice, a diagnosis of ASD much more often entails that the child will receive support at school and in the community, which is not the case for other diagnoses. In the past the comorbidities were given diagnostic priority and the "autistic features" might, or might not be mentioned as the "plus bit" in the diagnostic summary. It is high time that the comorbidities, sometimes even more important than the autism, came back on the diagnostic agenda. Autism is but one of the Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examination (ESSENCE), not the one and only.
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