Asperger’s Syndrome
A developmental disorder affecting ability to effectively socialize and communicate.
Asperger syndrome is a condition on the autism spectrum, with generally higher functioning.
People with this condition may be socially awkward and have an all-absorbing interest in specific topics.
Communication training and behavioral therapy can help people with the syndrome learn to socialize more successfully.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W015
Diagnosis: Asperger’s Syndrome
US Patients:
World Patients: 37Mil;½of1%
Sex Ratio: B+;G
Age Onset: Age1-2
Brain Area: poor neural connections, lack of “mirror neurons” for others’ behaviors
Symptoms: poor social Interactions, restricted interests, rigid mobility
Progression: Lifetime, train for social interactions and fewer repeated activities
Causes: Heredity
Medications: At present, only co-morbid difficulties are medicated effectively.
Therapies: none currently, but the children are usually quite high-functioning
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- Beyond imagination: Sorting out and treating psychosis in the context of autism spectrum disorderby Camilla Gesi on April 9, 2024
In the last decades, growing caseness for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been observed, owing to the diagnostic accretion of low-impairment forms, over and above other possible causes. Unrecognized ASD is likely to be mislabeled as a psychotic disorder (PD), as people in the spectrum may show 'pseudopsychotic' symptoms, resembling both negative and positive symptoms. On the other hand, PDs are likely to be overlooked when they arise in people with ASD, due to the 'diagnostic overshadowing'...
- Patient with Asperger's Syndrome, with episodes of fantasizing and rocking of body, treated with aripiprazole - a case reportby Maciej Dul on April 2, 2024
In this article, we present the case of an adult patient, whose main problem is episodes of fantasizing and rocking lasting up to 12 hours a day and completely preventing school development. The nature of the disorder in the patient is related to the sinking into fantasies, and not typical obsessions as in OCD. The patient was previously treated with drugs from the SSRI group, neuroleptics (without aripiprazole) and methylphenidate. Only methylphenidate showed some improvement; however, it made...
- Functional contribution of the intestinal microbiome in autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Rett syndrome: a systematic review of pediatric and adult studiesby Valentina Caputi on March 22, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Critical phases of neurodevelopment and gut microbiota diversification occur in early life and both processes are impacted by genetic and environmental factors. Recent studies have shown the presence of gut microbiota alterations in neurodevelopmental disorders. Here we performed a systematic review of alterations of the intestinal microbiota composition and function in pediatric and adult patients affected by autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder...
- The impact of quality control on cortical morphometry comparisons in autismby Saashi A Bedford on March 18, 2024
Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) quality is known to impact and bias neuroanatomical estimates and downstream analysis, including case-control comparisons, and a growing body of work has demonstrated the importance of careful quality control (QC) and evaluated the impact of image and image-processing quality. However, the growing size of typical neuroimaging datasets presents an additional challenge to QC, which is typically extremely time and labour intensive. One of the most...