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EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR
Volume 117, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.107813
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Autism; Developmental Epilepsy Clinic (DEC); Neurodevelopmental assessment
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Autism is more common in epilepsy patients but often goes undiagnosed. Without a diagnosis, children miss out on interventions and become a hidden group not benefiting from research. This paper discusses the challenges of diagnosing autism in a population at high risk of epilepsy.
Autism occurs more frequently in epilepsy, but is often not diagnosed. This could be due to a focus on medical issues, or because it presents differently from classic autism in its timing, phenotype, fluctuating profiles, and high level of comorbidity. Without a diagnosis, these children miss out on interventions that could modify outcome and their families and local teams will struggle to understand and support them. They also become a hidden group that does not participate in or benefit from research. This paper examined the issues and challenges of diagnosing autism in a population with a high-risk of epilepsy, drawing on more than 20 years' experience of a specialist multi-disciplinary Developmental Epilepsy Clinic (DEC). Crown Copyright (C) 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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