
Past Issues
DSM-5on Epidemiological and Genetic Studies of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Taiwan
Luke Y. Tsai
This overview reviews the evolution of the definition and diagnostic criteria
of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The author starts to introduce the work on
early infantile autism by Leo Kanner and the work on autistic psychopathy by
Hans Asperger. Then, he describes how infantile autism is defined in ICD-9-CM,
and pervasive developmental disorders in DSM-III and DSM-III-R, how autistic
disorder and Asperger’s disorder as subtypes of pervasive developmental disorders
in DSM-IV, as well as how ASD as a single category is listed in DSM-5. With all
those background information, the author warns the impacts of DSM-5 ASD on
future studies of ASD epidemiology and genetics in Taiwan. Overall, it seems that
the implementation of DSM-5 ASD may cause more negative results than provides
positive influences. Investigators of ASD in Taiwan must be mindful of the poten-tially negative impacts caused by the DSM-5ASD.
Key Word | DSM-IV, ICD-10, autism spectrum disorder, Asperger’s disorder |
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