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The British Journal of Psychiatry (2005) 187: 395-397
© 2005 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

EDITORIALS

Autistic-spectrum disorders: lessons from neuroimaging

FIONA TOAL, MRCPsych

Department of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin

DECLAN G.M. MURPHY, MRCPsych, MD (USA)

Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK

KIERAN C. MURPHY, PhD, FRCPsych

Department of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Correspondence: Fiona Toal, Department of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland. E-mail: ftoal{at}rcsi.ie

Declaration of interest None.

Autistic-spectrum disorder is approximately half as common as schizophrenia but its cause remains unknown. Recent studies have begun to clarify the underlying neuroanatomical abnormalities and brain–behaviour relationships in autism. In the past decade, great advances have been made in our understanding of the neurobiological basis of autism.


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