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Can Cannabis Help Treat Symptoms of Asperger’s?

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Before the most recent DSM-V was published in 2013, Asperger's Syndrome was considered a separate diagnosis. However, the American Psychiatric Association decided to reclassify Asperger’s, as well as several other conditions, such as pervasive developmental disorder, as part of Autism Spectrum Disorder. This consolidated the diagnosis into two core domains, social communication/interaction and restrictive/repetitive behaviors, and allowed for the diagnosis of autism with or without a cognitive or language delay.1

Today, a large majority of the autistic community agrees that the term Asperger’s should not be used in any diagnostic form or as a way to describe someone on the autism spectrum. To learn more about autism spectrum disorder and cannabis, head to our article on autism and cannabis.

Resources

  1. Grzadzinski RL, Huerta M, Lord C. DSM-5 and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs): an opportunity for identifying ASD subtypes. Molecular autism. 2013;4(1):12-12. doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/2040-2392-4-12

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