Caution needed in ascribing subthreshold symptoms as autism spectrum disorder: Commentary on "autistic traits distribution in different psychiatric conditions: A cluster analysis on the basis of the adult autism subthreshold spectrum (AdAS SPECTRUM) questionnaire"

Marco O Bertelli; Veronica Boniotti; Annamaria Bianco; Giulia Vannucchi; Elisabetta F Buonaguro; Martina Micai; Laura Fatta; Michele Rossi; Edoardo Pecchini; Valeria Bizzari; Michele Conte; Gianpaolo Lombardi; Serafino Corti; Katrina Scior; Muhammad Waqar Azeem; Angela Hassiotis; Amaria Baghdadli; Maria Luisa Scattoni; Luis Salvador-Carulla; Afzal Javed; Kerim Munir

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115617

Caution needed in ascribing subthreshold symptoms as autism spectrum disorder: Commentary on "autistic traits distribution in different psychiatric conditions: A cluster analysis on the basis of the adult autism subthreshold spectrum (AdAS SPECTRUM) questionnaire"

Psychiatry Res. 2024 Jan:331:115617. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115617. Epub 2023 Nov 19.

Authors

Marco O Bertelli¹, Veronica Boniotti², Annamaria Bianco², Giulia Vannucchi³, Elisabetta F Buonaguro⁴, Martina Micai⁵, Laura Fatta⁵, Michele Rossi², Edoardo Pecchini², Valeria Bizzari⁶, Michele Conte⁷, Gianpaolo Lombardi⁸, Serafino Corti⁹, Katrina Scior¹⁰, Muhammad Waqar Azeem¹¹, Angela Hassiotis¹², Amaria Baghdadli¹³, Maria Luisa Scattoni⁵, Luis Salvador-Carulla¹⁴, Afzal Javed¹⁵, Kerim Munir¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ CREA (Research and Clinical Centre), Fondazione San Sebastiano Della Misericordia di Firenze, Florence, Italy. Electronic address: mbertelli@crea-sansebastiano.org.
² CREA (Research and Clinical Centre), Fondazione San Sebastiano Della Misericordia di Firenze, Florence, Italy.
³ Psychiatry Unit, Versilia Hospital, Lido di Camaiore, Lucca, Italy.
⁴ School of Medicine, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
⁵ National Observatory on Autism, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
⁶ Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Husserl Archives, KU Leuven, Belgium.
⁷ IPSICO (Institute of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychology and Psychotherapy), Florence, Italy.
⁸ IAF.F (Institute of Family Psychotherapy and Higher Education), Florence, Italy.
⁹ Fondazione Istituto Ospedaliero di SospiroOnlus, Cremona, Italy.
¹⁰ Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Department of Psychiatry, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar; Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar, Qatar.
¹² Division of Psychiatry, University College of London, London, United Kingdom.
¹³ Department of Paediatric Psychiatry, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France; Centre de Resources Autisme Languedoc-Roussillon, Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France.
¹⁴ School of Public Health, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.
¹⁵ Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; Pakistan Psychiatric Research Centre, Fountain House, Lahore, Pakistan.
¹⁶ Division of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.

PMID: 38043410
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115617

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Autism Spectrum Disorder* / diagnosis
Autism Spectrum Disorder* / psychology
Autistic Disorder* / psychology
Cluster Analysis
Humans
Self Report
Surveys and Questionnaires