Personality disorders and autism spectrum disorders: What are the connections?

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 333-340

  Lugnegård, Tove ^a,b   Hallerbäck, Maria Unenge ^a,b   Gillberg, Christopher ^b  

^a CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM SPECTRUM QUOTIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84859887795     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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