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The Clinical Features of Comorbid Pediatric Bipolar Disorder in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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The aim of this study was to describe clinical features of PBD comorbidity in children with ASD. Forty children with ASD and PBD aged 6–18 years, and 40 age- and sex-matched ASD subjects with no affective episodes were included in the study. Autism Behavior CheckList, Abberant Behavior CheckList, and Young Mania Rating Scale-Parent Version were completed. This study shows that PBD comorbidity in children with ASD involves a highly episodic course, with manic episodes, subsyndromal symptoms and interepisodic periods commonly being described in the manic symptom profile of these children. These findings need to be repeated with large samples, together with controlled studies concerning therapeutic interventions directed toward PBD comorbidity in children with ASD.

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DS, SB, SA are involved in determining the aim and method of the research, and in the data collection, data analysis, reviewing the existing literature, and writing stages.

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  1. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Çanakkale State Hospital, Çanakkale, Turkey

    Dicle Sapmaz

  2. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Namık Kemal, Tekirdağ, Turkey

    Saliha Baykal

  3. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, İstinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Seher Akbaş

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Sapmaz, D., Baykal, S. & Akbaş, S. The Clinical Features of Comorbid Pediatric Bipolar Disorder in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. J Autism Dev Disord 48, 2800–2808 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3541-x

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