Prevalence of Mood Disorders among Autistic Children: A review article
Background: Autism spectrum disease (ASD) represented as a collection of neurodevelopmental disorders marked by reduced reciprocal socializations and communications. Mood conditions are frequent in autism spectrum disease (ASD). Objectives: The present work aimed to evaluate prevalence, symptoms a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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South Valley University, Faculty of Medicine
2024-01-01
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| Series: | SVU - International Journal of Medical Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://svuijm.journals.ekb.eg/article_154805.html |
| Summary: | Background: Autism spectrum disease (ASD) represented as a collection of neurodevelopmental disorders marked by reduced reciprocal socializations and communications. Mood conditions are frequent in autism spectrum disease (ASD).
Objectives: The present work aimed to evaluate prevalence, symptoms and treatment of different types of mood disorders in kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), with ages between 2 to 16 yrs.
Methods: We have searched literature in Pub Med and Google scholar.
Conclusion: Early age, male gender, low socioeconomic states, residence, consanguinity, old parent’s age, represented conditions that are accompanying with a raised hazard for ASD in population. Mood disorder including anxiety, bipolar disorders, depressions, and obsessive-compulsive disease (OCD) beside attention deficit hyper-activity disorders (ADHD) are the utmost occurring co morbidities. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and anti-psychotics were defined for mood disorders management. |
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| ISSN: | 2735-427X 2636-3402 |