Medical Hypotheses
Volume 53, Issue 1 , Pages 48-49, July 1999

Movements in autistic disorder

Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, 10016-6481, USA

Received 7 October 1997; accepted 23 December 1997.

Abstract 

Autistic disorder, an extremely disabling syndrome with onset in early childhood, is associated with multiple comorbid conditions. Although autistic disorder is hetergeneous in its manifestations, there is a subgroup of individuals with autistic disorder who display movements that appear to be unique for the disorders. Hand flapping and a variety of movements termed stereotypies may be pathognomonic of autistic disorder. Therefore, identification of a movement disorder characteristic of autistic disorder may imply that the individual has autistic disorder.

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PII: S0306-9877(97)90711-8

doi:10.1054/mehy.1997.0711

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 53, Issue 1 , Pages 48-49, July 1999

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