Stephannie L. Furtak

TL;DR: Adults with ASD have high levels of psychiatric comorbidity and dysfunction comparable to a clinically referred population of adults without ASD, and were functionally more impaired with a significant proportion having received both counseling and pharmacotherapy.

TL;DR: Despite the robust presentation of ADHD, a significant majority of ASD youth with ADHD failed to receive appropriate ADHD treatment and a high rate of comorbidity with ADHD was observed in psychiatrically referred youth with ASD.

TL;DR: Preliminary findings support the glutamatergic dysregulation hypothesis in autism and need to be replicated in a larger sample.

TL;DR: Phenotypic and familial correlates of bipolar disorder were typical of the disorder in the presence of ASD comorbidity, and a clinically significant minority of youth with bipolar I disorder suffers fromComorbid ASD.

TL;DR: Treatment with memantine appears to be beneficial for the treatment of ASD and associated psychopathology and cognitive dysfunction in intellectually capable adults.