Journal article
Thought, Language, Communication, and Affective Flattening in Autistic Adults
Archives of general psychiatry, Vol.43(8), pp.771-777
08/01/1986
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1986.01800080057008
PMID: 3729672
Abstract
• Subtypes of thought disorder and affective flattening were examined in 14 adults with clear DSM-III diagnoses of infantile autism or autism, residual state, using videotaped psychiatric interviews and objective rating scales. Schizophrenic, manic, and normal subjects constituted contrast groups. Autistic adults, most of whom were high functioning, showed a high incidence and severity of poverty of speech, poverty of content of speech, perseveration, and affective flattening. They showed significantly less derailment, illogicality, and other features of "positive thought disorder" than either the schizophrenic or manic group, but they did not differ from schizophrenics on any affective flattening variable.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Thought, Language, Communication, and Affective Flattening in Autistic Adults
- Creators
- Judith M RumseyNancy C AndreasenJudith L Rapoport
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Archives of general psychiatry, Vol.43(8), pp.771-777
- DOI
- 10.1001/archpsyc.1986.01800080057008
- PMID
- 3729672
- NLM abbreviation
- Arch Gen Psychiatry
- ISSN
- 0003-990X
- eISSN
- 1538-3636
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/1986
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984003937002771
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