ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2019
Do autism spectrum disorder and anorexia nervosa have some eating disturbances in common?
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- A scoping review of the relationship between autistic traits and eating disorders: exploring the secondary impact of eating disorders and co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- A Mixed Method Systematic Review Into the Impact of ED Treatment in Autistic People and Those With High Autistic Traits.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Investigating the Presence of Autistic Traits and Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Long-term follow-up study of low-weight avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder and childhood-onset anorexia nervosa: comparison of autistic eating behaviours.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Time to notice neurodiversity in eating disorder services: a three-year real-world analysis of autism, ADHD, and AuDHD.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Social camouflaging of autistic traits is associated with more severe symptoms among subjects with feeding and eating disorders.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Article
- "I Know It's Very Spectrum-y": Autistic Women Reflect on Sensory Aspects of Food and Eating.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- The Cognitive Profile in Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa and the Relationship With Autism and ADHD: A Pilot Study.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Article
- Exploring the links between sensory sensitivity, autistic traits and autism-related eating behaviours in a sample of adult women with eating disorders.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Perceived misdiagnosis of psychiatric conditions in autistic adults.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Is Interoception Deficit Linking Alexithymia and Eating Spectrum Symptoms? Study on a Non-Clinical Sample of Young Adults.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Co-occurring autism, ADHD, and gender dysphoria in children, adolescents, and young adults with eating disorders: an examination of pre- vs. post-COVID pandemic outbreak trends with real-time electronic health record data.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Finding the Proportion of Females with Autistic Spectrum Disorder Who Develop Anorexia Nervosa, the True Prevalence of Female ASD and Its Clinical Significance.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- New insights in pediatrics in 2021: choices in allergy and immunology, critical care, endocrinology, gastroenterology, genetics, haematology, infectious diseases, neonatology, neurology, nutrition, palliative care, respiratory tract illnesses and telemedicine.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2022Review
- The role of interoception in the overlap between eating disorders and autism: Methodological considerations.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2022Article
- Problematic eating behaviours of autistic women-A scoping review.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2022Article
- Is Alexithymia the Link Between Anorexia and Autism Spectrum Disorders?Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2022Article
- Eating disturbances in eating disorders and in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: a preliminary study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Neural processing of self-touch and other-touch in anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum condition.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2022Article
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Abstract
A possible overlap between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and anorexia nervosa (AN), in terms of both behavioural and cognitive features, has led to new areas of research. The aim of the present study was to examine the occurrence of eating behaviours frequently seen in ASD among adolescents and young adults with AN. The participants were females within the age range 15-25 years: 36 with current AN (32 were followed up after 1 year), 19 with ASD, and 30 healthy females. The participants completed the SWedish Eating Assessment for Autism spectrum disorders (SWEAA) and the Autism Spectrum Quotient tool (AQ). AN groups had significantly higher SWEAA scores than the healthy comparison group, also when patients had gained weight. Typical autistic eating behaviours, such as selective eating, were more common in the AN groups than in the ASD group. This is the first time that SWEAA has been implemented in an AN population. Eating behaviours frequently seen in ASD seem to be frequent in AN and some remain also after weight gain.
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