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Each month, Clinical Advisor makes one new clinical feature available ahead of print. Don’t forget to take the poll. The results will be published in the next month’s issue. The fifth edition of the ...

It's been just over a year since the American Psychiatric Association released the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), and new research shows that ...

Medically reviewed by Kira Graves, PhD Key Takeaways Adults can use self-screening autism tests before seeing a healthcare ...

Since 2013, when the DSM-5 collapsed five autism subtypes into the single diagnosis of "autism spectrum disorder (ASD)," we've treated autism like a monolith. Maybe that made sense when our tools were ...

The diagnosis of autism is still largely subjective; there are no biomarkers that can conclusively identify autism spectrum disorder (ASD) patients, and the issue is highly variable from one patient ...

Many concerned parents seek a diagnostic assessment to see whether their child’s social communication and behavior meet the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or in response to ...

A wider public conversation has arisen over whether it's time for a shift in how we think about categories of autism, amid ...

In 1943, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, identified autism as a separate disorder from schizophrenia in young children. Kanner called his newly identified disorder early ...