There is a lot of overlap in criteria between autism and psychosis. This has been acknowledged in the DSM-V criteria for schizophrenia, adding caution through the requirement that for a person ...

Neither autism nor schizophrenia is linked with psychopathy. And as for autism -- if it ultimately turns out to be what Lanza had -- that diagnosis is actually linked with reduced crime risk.

Groundbreaking new research from Princeton University and the Simons Foundation has pinpointed four distinct subtypes of ...

There are at least four distinct subtypes of autism, a new study finds, helping to explain the various trajectories of ...

The team evaluated the effect of psychosis and autism tendencies on the perspective-taking abilities of 201 neurotypical adults, by asking them to complete a number of tasks.

Ultimately, they diagnosed him with autism and psychosis, which, Foss-Feig says, was probably due to schizophrenia. This combination of features, it turns out, is not all that unusual.

Autism and schizophrenia have been considered separate disorders since 1980, with the publication of the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical ...

DiGeorge syndrome is the highest known genetic risk factor for psychosis, and one of many known genetic risk factors for autism. Between 30 and 40 percent of individuals with the syndrome are ...

Researchers at Princeton University and the Simons Foundation have identified four clinically and biologically distinct ...