Psychiatric comorbidities in neurodevelopmental disorders

Recent changes in the diagnostic criteria for psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders as well as increases in the prevalence of both have elevated the focus on these areas of medicine and their clinical overlap. Several recent studies have examined psychiatric comorbidities in neurodevelopmenta...

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Published in:Current opinion in neurology Vol. 29; no. 2; p. 113
Main Author: King, Bryan H
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England 01.04.2016
Subjects:
Behavior - physiology
Comorbidity
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Mental Disorders - epidemiology
Mental Disorders - genetics
Mental Disorders - psychology
Neurodevelopmental Disorders - epidemiology
Neurodevelopmental Disorders - genetics
Neurodevelopmental Disorders - psychology
Prevalence
ISSN:1473-6551, 1473-6551
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Summary:Recent changes in the diagnostic criteria for psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders as well as increases in the prevalence of both have elevated the focus on these areas of medicine and their clinical overlap. Several recent studies have examined psychiatric comorbidities in neurodevelopmental disorders including autism and specific genetic syndromes. A growing number of reports underscore the genetic overlap between previously distinct clinical disorders. Behavioral and psychiatric features are increasingly identified in association with intellectual developmental disorders. As there have been advances in our collective understanding of the genetic underpinnings of certain disorders and the downstream physiological consequences of those genetic alterations, challenges to the way boundaries have been drawn around psychiatric disorders, and by extension, the concept of comorbidity, warrant review.
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ISSN:1473-6551
1473-6551
DOI:10.1097/WCO.0000000000000299