Prevalence of Mood Disorders among Autistic Children: A review article | ||||
| SVU-International Journal of Medical Sciences | ||||
| Article 33, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2024, Page 324-333 PDF (249.17 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Reviews Articles. | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/svuijm.2021.64719.1099 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Khaled Abd-allah Abd-elbaser1; Abdallah Mohammed Elnasr  1; Nessren Ali Mohmmed2; Ali Helmi Bakri1
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| 1Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt | ||||
| 2Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Autism spectrum disease (ASD) represented as a collection of neurodevelopmental disorders marked by reduced reciprocal socializations and communications. Mood conditions are frequent in autism spectrum disease (ASD). Objectives: The present work aimed to evaluate prevalence, symptoms and treatment of different types of mood disorders in kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), with ages between 2 to 16 yrs. Methods: We have searched literature in Pub Med and Google scholar. Conclusion: Early age, male gender, low socioeconomic states, residence, consanguinity, old parent’s age, represented conditions that are accompanying with a raised hazard for ASD in population. Mood disorder including anxiety, bipolar disorders, depressions, and obsessive-compulsive disease (OCD) beside attention deficit hyper-activity disorders (ADHD) are the utmost occurring co morbidities. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and anti-psychotics were defined for mood disorders management. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Anxiety; Attention deficit hyper-activity disorder; Autism, Mood disorders; Obsessive – compulsive disorder | ||||
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