Results: Autism diagnosis questioned in Canadian-led review
Published on 08/23/2019
The autism diagnosis has become so broad that it prevents a better understanding of how the autistic brain works, a Canadian researcher and psychiatrist says.
In a meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers in Quebec and Denmark analyzed 11 previous major reviews on people with autism and people in the rest of the population.
Laurent Mottron, a research psychiatrist at the mental health unit of Montreal's Rivière-des-Prairies Hospital and one of the study's authors, said the problem is that the criteria have shifted to the point where a diagnosis could become nearly meaningless.
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Are you aware about "Autism"?
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Do you think that the current methods for autism diagnosis are efficient? Yes
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Do you think that most of the psychiatric illness are misdiagnosed because of the influence of BIG PHARMA? Yes
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Dermot Cleary, chair of Autism Canada, said Mottron is well respected. Cleary supports the move away from a purely observational-based diagnosis. Do you think diagnosis based on an expert's observation can sometimes go wrong? Yes
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