PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS AND COMORBIDITIES IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

1. Mood Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder
2. Anxiety in Autism Spectrum Disorder
3. Repetitive Behavior in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Similarities and Differences with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
4. Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder
5. Feeding and Eating Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder
6. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder
7. Tics and Tourette Syndrome in Autism Spectrum Disorder
8. Sleep Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder
9. Personality Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Is Similar and What Is Different?
10. “Gender Is Not on My Agenda!”: Gender Dysphoria and Autism Spectrum Disorder

This book explains in detail the diagnosis, management, and treatment of comorbid disorders in patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Important insights are provided into the nature of the symptoms of psychiatric comorbidities in these patients, and particularly children and adolescents, with a view to assisting clinicians in reaching a correct diagnosis that will permit the implementation of appropriate treatment strategies, whether psychological or pharmacological. The full range of potential comorbidities is considered, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, eating disorders, disruptive behavioral disorders, Tourette’s disorder, and substance-related disorders. In each case guidance is provided on how to avoid incorrectly attributing symptoms to ASD and on treatment options. Psychiatric Comorbidities in Autism Spectrum Disorders will be of value to all practitioners who are confronted by patients with these complex co-occurring conditions.

Features
• Helps clinicians to interpret symptoms in patients with autism spectrum disorders and potential psychiatric comorbidities
• Provides detailed guidance on treatment strategies in these patients
• Covers the full range of potential psychiatric comorbidities

Authors
• Luigi Mazzone MD Ph.D., is the author of several book chapters and numerous research papers published in leading peer-reviewed psychiatric journals. He is actually working as a Clinical Researcher at the Division of Child Psychiatry at Bambino Gesù Hospital in Vatican, Rome, Italy.
• Benedetto Vitiello is a psychiatrist with expertise in psychopharmacology and treatment research. He has been part of many publicly funded clinical trials testing the effects of interventions in children and adolescents, such as the Multimodal Treatment of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA), the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS), the Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) network studies, the Preschoolers with ADHD Treatment Study (PATS), and the Treatment of Early Onset Schizophrenia Study (TEOSS). He is adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He works at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, as the chief of the Treatment and Preventive Interventions Research Branch.