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Common psychiatric comorbidities and their assessment

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Recent studies indicate that psychiatric comorbidity is common in ASD, that rates of problematic psychiatric symptoms are higher in ASD than in the general population, and that comorbid psychiatric disorders can significantly impair functioning and interfere with therapeutic and scholastic progress.

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    Stephanie H. Ameis & Peter Szatmari

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    Evdokia Anagnostou

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    Jessica Brian

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Ameis, S.H., Szatmari, P. (2015). Common psychiatric comorbidities and their assessment. In: Anagnostou, E., Brian, J. (eds) Clinician’s Manual on Autism Spectrum Disorder. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03056-2_3

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