Medical comorbidities in autism: Challenges to diagnosis and treatment

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 320-327

  Bauman, Margaret L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical behaviors; Autism; Diagnosis; Management; Medical conditions

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; CHOLESTEROL; CLOMIPRAMINE; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUVOXAMINE; MELATONIN; MIRTAZAPINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRAZODONE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CROHN DISEASE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; ESOPHAGITIS; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTRITIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LESCH NYHAN SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DISORDER; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHENYLKETONURIA; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEIZURE; SLEEP DISORDER; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME; UREA CYCLE DISORDER; WILSON DISEASE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; EPILEPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; METABOLIC DISEASES; SLEEP DISORDERS;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; EPILEPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; METABOLIC DISEASES; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 77954925246     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurt.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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