Not an Atypical Presentation: Autism in Women

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2020-09-30

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Garcia Murillo, L., Diaz de Neira, M., Forti-Buratti, M. A., & Palanca Maresca, I. (2020). Not an Atypical Presentation: Autism in Women. Revista De Psiquiatría Infanto-Juvenil, 37(3), 29–34. https://doi.org/10.31766/revpsij.v37n3a4

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Vol. 37 No. 3 (2020): July-September

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https://doi.org/10.31766/revpsij.v37n3a4

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Autism Spectrum Disorder, women, teenager, diagnosis

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Despite current knowledge about the wide variety of symptoms and phenotypes of patients that meet criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder, some of these phenotypes are still not clearly described in psychopathological classifications. A clinical case of a teenage patient who consults for depressive symptoms is proposed. After the evaluation, an underlying Autism Spectrum Disorder that had gone unnoticed was discovered.

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