The impacts of elevated autism spectrum disorder traits on clinical and psychosocial features and long-term treatment outcome in adult patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

While a close relation between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been pointed out, there are few studies that have investigated whether highly elevated ASD traits may have significant impacts on clinical and psychosocial features as well as long-term treatment outcome in adult OCD patients.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - May 17, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hironori Mito, Naomi Matsuura, Keiitiro Mukai, Yoshinobu Yanagisawa, Akihiro Nakajima, Mikuni Motoyama, Ayako Arikawa, Kyosuke Yamanishi, Hisato Matsunaga Source Type: research