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Prevalence of epilepsy and young-onset dementia in adults with intellectual disability: Contrasting Down syndrome and autism diagnoses

2026-06-15

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<p>Objective: Epilepsy and young-onset Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias [ADRD] greatly impact health and service needs. Despite their elevated prevalence in intellectual disability (ID), large scale studies of both conditions, which are known to co-occur, among subgroups of ID (i.e., Down syndrome [DS] and/or autism spectrum disorder [ASD]) are lacking. The objective of this research was to characterize t...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/647m3_v2

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