AUTISTIC BEHAVIOR AND ATTENTION DEFICITS IN TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS - A POPULATION-BASED STUDY

Authors
GILLBERG IC GILLBERG C AHLSEN G
Citation
Ic. Gillberg et al., AUTISTIC BEHAVIOR AND ATTENTION DEFICITS IN TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS - A POPULATION-BASED STUDY, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 36(1), 1994, pp. 50-56
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00121622
Volume
36
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
50 - 56
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-1622(1994)36:1<50:ABAADI>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
In a population-based sample of 28 individuals under the age of 20 yea rs, autistic symptoms were present in 24 and DSM-III-R autistic disord er in 17. Many of the children and adolescents diagnosed as autistic a lso showed attention deficit/hyperactivity. There was no specific asso ciation between autistic behaviour and the presence of infantile spasm s. Some of the children with tuberous sclerosis and autism were of nea r-normal intelligence. Indirectly, the results suggest that as many as 9 per cent of all children with autism may have tuberous sclerosis.