Autism and schizophrenia share certain symptoms, such as a reduced capacity for communication and social interaction, Young says.
Not exact matches
Even though a biomarker
shared by
schizophrenia and autism might not reveal anything specific to
autism, he adds, it might highlight a neural process that is central to social cognition,
and that might be altered in several conditions, including
autism.
This idea of finding
shared neural processes presupposes that the same problems explain the social difficulties seen in people with
autism and those with
schizophrenia — an idea that Sasson
and Pinkham's work has brought into question.
Bipolar disorder may
share the same genetic roots with other psychiatric conditions such as
autism and schizophrenia.