Many researches have proved that there is a link between schizophrenia and autism.
Some discover that autism and schizophrenia had a genetic link, representing a heightened risk within families. Emerging study results suggest that there are both clinical and biological links between autism and schizophrenia.
Although autism has long been recognized as a separate diagnostic entity from schizophrenia, both disorders share clinical features.
Childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS), considered a rare and severe form of schizophrenia, frequently presents with premorbid developmental abnormalities. This prepsychotic developmental disorder includes deficits in communication, social relatedness, and motor development, similar to those seen in autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
People who have one of these conditions may have features in common, such as language problems, irritability and aggression. They also share certain genetic variants that raise the risk of the conditions.
Gene expression patterns in the brains of people with autism are similar to those of people who have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, according to a large study of postmortem brain tissue.
Finally, to get more accurate results, more researches still need doing.
Keywords: schizophrenia autism
