What Are the Statistics With Regards to Bipolar Disorder and Asperger Syndrome Dual Diagnosis?

Question by ISA: What are the statistics with regards to Bipolar Disorder and Asperger Syndrome dual diagnosis?

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Answer by Emma S
Apparently it’s fairly common, but it’s not a well studied area of psychology. I did a quick google scholar search, and I found this paper that might be of interest to you:

High prevalence of bipolar disorder comorbidity in adolescents and young adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: A preliminary study of 44 outpatients by T. Munesue, Y. Onoa, K. Mutoha, K. Shimodaa, H. Nakatania and M. Kikuchi, 2008.

I’d start there and then look through the citations and papers that cite it to see what comes up.

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