Article
Autism, affective and other psychiatric disorders: patterns of familial aggregation.
Psychological medicine - 1 Mar 1998
Bolton P F, Pickles A, Murphy M, Rutter M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The liability to autism confers a risk for a range of more subtle autistic-like impairments, but it remains unclear whether it also confers a risk for other psychiatric disturbances. METHODS: To investigate this, we studied the pattern of familial aggregation of psychiatric disorders...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Autistic Disorder
- Chi-Square Distribution
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Comorbidity
- Confidence Intervals
- Down Syndrome
- Family Health
- Female
- Humans
- Logistic Models
- Male
- Mental Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Odds Ratio