Chinese Mental Health Journal 2015;(6):419-424

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1000-6729.2015.06.004

Comorbidity of autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder:A review

Jia CAI ; Sugai LIANG ; Xiao HU ; Yi HUANG

Keywords

autism spectrum disorder; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; morbidity; review

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)is one of the most common comorbidities of ASD.This article reviews the assessment tools and clinical research (prevalence,clinical characteristics and treat-ment)and fundamental research (iconography,genetics,neurophychology,electronerophysiology)of ASD with ADHD according to lately related articles.The findings suggested that there was lack of researches on treatment and iconography of ASD with ADHD and the conclusions were inconformity.Furthermore,most of the objects in these researches were children of normal intelligence.Thus future research should expand its objects to patients of adult and children with mental retardation and do further explore in iconography and treatment.