Co-occurring trajectories of anxiety and insistence on sameness behaviour in autism spectrum disorder.

CONCLUSIONS: The concurrent assessment of insistence on sameness behaviour and anxiety in ASD may help in understanding current symptom profiles and anticipating future trajectories. High preschool insistence on sameness in particular may be associated with elevated current or future anxiety symptoms. PMID: 32641181 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32641181?dopt=Abstract

Source: The British Journal of Psychiatry for Mental Science - July 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Br J Psychiatry Source Type: research