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Psychotic Symptomatology in Adolescentes witch Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

L. Mallol Castaño ,
R. Paricio Del Castillo  and
P. Del Sol Calderón
L. Mallol Castaño*
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Psiquiatría Infanto-juvenil, Majadahonda, Spain
R. Paricio Del Castillo
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Psiquiatría Infanto-juvenil, Majadahonda, Spain
P. Del Sol Calderón
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Psiquiatría Infanto-juvenil, Majadahonda, Spain
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

INTRODUCTION: Patients with autistic spectrum disorders may exhibit symptoms that can also appear in psychotic disorders, such as isolation and difficulties in social interaction. In addition, these patients may also present psychotic symptoms throughout their lives, sometimes difficult to differentiate from the patient’s own idiosyncrasies.

Objectives

OBJECTIVES: To deepen the knowledge of the comorbidity of autism spectrum disorders, in particular psychosis, as well as the differential diagnosis in order to establish an adequate treatment plan and a multidisciplinary approach.

Methods

METHODS: A detailed description is given of two cases of adolescents diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder who have presented time-limited psychotic symptomatology in the last year. In addition, a literature search was conducted on the comorbidity of psychosis in patients with ASD.

Results

RESULTS: Both patients have required several hospital admissions to psychiatric units when they have had psychotic decompensations and psychopharmacological treatment with antipsychotics has been initiated.

Conclusions

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with autistic spectrum disorders have a wide comorbidity. Psychosis can appear in these patients, often starting in adolescence, a time when social demands increase and patients can become decompensated. They require rapid, multi-level intervention.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

autistic spectrum disordercomorbityPsychosisAdolescents
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European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S432
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