ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022
Autism Spectrum Disorder May Be Highly Prevalent in People with Functional Neurological Disorders.
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- Autism in children and young people with functional tic-like behaviours: a retrospective cross-sectional study.Archives of disease in childhood · 2026Article
- Differentiating tics and functional tic-like behaviours in children and young people: personal and family mental health profiles and their clinical implications.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Why does FND mainly affect women? A consideration of gender imbalance in neuropsychiatric disease.Psychological medicine · 2026Review
- An Occurrence of Mass Psychogenic Illness: LeRoy, New York.Journal of child neurology · 2026Article
- Case Report: Autism-like phenomenology in functional neurological disorder in the social-media era: over- and under-diagnosis of autism as a bidirectional clinical problem.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- A systematic review of functional neurological disorder in transgender people.International journal of transgender health · 2026Review
- Structured clinical diagnostic assessment reveals autism spectrum disorder in adults with functional neurological disorder.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Functional Movement Disorder in Familial Ataxia: A Case Report of Monozygotic Twins.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2025Article
- Co-occurring functional neurological disorder and autism: an exploratory study of comorbidities in a retrospective cohort study using TriNetX.Journal of neurology · 2025Article
- Genome-wide study of somatic symptom and related disorders identifies novel genomic loci and map genetic architecture.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Going 'meta': a systematic review of metacognition and functional neurological disorder.Brain communications · 2025Review
- Functional Neurological Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Complex and Potentially Significant Relationship.Brain and behavior · 2024Review
- Psychiatric Comorbidities in Functional Neurological Disorders and Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures: A Systematic Review and Policy Recommendations for Improving Assessment and Treatment.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2024Review
- Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility.Behaviour research and therapy · 2023Article
- Integrated cognitive behavioral intervention for functional tics (I-CBiT): case reports and treatment formulation.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Recent observations suggest that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) co-occurs in people with a functional neurological disorder (FND), but little systematic data are available on the relationship between FND and autism. The study aimed to assess the self-reported autistic traits via a standardized questionnaire and the prevalence of previously diagnosed ASD among people with FND and their 1st-degree relatives. We performed a survey of members of the patient organization FNDHope, using a self-completed questionnaire for screening for autistic traits and ASD: the adult autism subthreshold spectrum (AdAS spectrum). There were 344 respondents diagnosed with FND with a mean age of 39.8 ± 11.6 years (female sex 90%). Eight per cent of respondents volunteered a previous diagnosis of ASD, and 24% reported a 1st-degree relative with a formal diagnosis of ASD, mostly their children. We found that 69% of respondents had scores in the AdAS spectrum indicating a clinically significant ASD and 21% indicating autistic traits. Further studies are needed to provide more evidence regarding the prevalence of ASD in people with FND and how this may influence the aetiology, treatment selection and prognosis.
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