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Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's syndrome or Asperger's, is a diagnostic label that has historically been used to describe a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. [5]
[284] [285] [286] Asperger syndrome was traditionally called "schizoid disorder of childhood". Genetic disorders – about 10–15% of autism cases have an identifiable Mendelian (single-gene) condition, chromosome abnormality, or other genetic syndromes. [287] Several metabolic defects, such as phenylketonuria, are associated with autistic ...
The DSM-V made a new, broad diagnosis in 2013 of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This category contains the previous individual diagnoses of Autistic Disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, and other related developmental disorders. ASD is rated on levels of severity on a scale ranging from severe, through moderate, to mild based on clinical ...
Asperger syndrome (9% of autism diagnoses); Rett syndrome; and; Childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD). The first three of these disorders are commonly called the autism spectrum disorders; the last two disorders are much rarer, and are sometimes placed in the autism spectrum and sometimes not. [2] [3]
ASD is also associated with neurofibromatosis type I (NF-1). [60] NF-1 is a complex multi-system human disorder caused by the mutation of a gene on chromosome 17 that is responsible for production of a protein, called neurofibromin 1, which is needed for normal function in many human cell types. NF-1 causes tumors along the nervous system which ...
Elon Musk declared himself to be the first person with Asperger syndrome to host “Saturday Night Live” in the opening of his May 8 monologue. “Or at least the first person to admit it,” he ...
Asperger was investigating Asperger syndrome which, for various reasons, was not widely considered a separate diagnosis until 1981, [90] although both are now considered part of ASD. Leo Kanner of the Johns Hopkins Hospital first used autism in English to refer to classic autism when he introduced the label early infantile autism in a 1943 ...
Asperger or Asperger's may also refer to: Hans Asperger (1906–1980), Austrian pediatrician with ties to eugenics after whom Asperger syndrome, a type of autism spectrum disorder, is named Asperger's Are Us , the first comedy troupe formed by people with Asperger syndrome