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Introduction

Credit Hours: 1.00

Target Audience:

This activity is directed to physicians, medical students, nurse practitioners, nurses, and physician assistants.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Define Autism and discuss it’s co-occurrence with ADHD.
  • Discuss the evolution of the DSM in allowing the two diagnoses to co-exist.
  • Describe how treatment and management for ADHD changes when there’s a diagnosis of Autism as well.

There is no educational content to this course. This course is designed to only administer the post-test and collect CME evaluations for the podcast associated with this training.

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Barkley RA, Fischer M. The unique contribution of emotional impulsiveness to impairment in major life activities in hyperactive children as adults. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2010 May;49(5):503-13. doi: 10.1097/00004583-201005000-00011. PMID: 20431470.
  2. Danielson ML, Claussen AH, Bitsko RH, Katz SM, Newsome K, Blumberg SJ, Kogan MD, Ghandour R. ADHD Prevalence Among U.S. Children and Adolescents in 2022: Diagnosis, Severity, Co-Occurring Disorders, and Treatment. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2024 May-Jun;53(3):343-360. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2024.2335625. Epub 2024 May 22. PMID: 38778436; PMCID: PMC11334226.
  3. Graziano PA, Garcia A. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and children's emotion dysregulation: A meta-analysis. Clin Psychol Rev. 2016 Jun;46:106-23. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2016.04.011. Epub 2016 Apr 27. PMID: 27180913.
  4. Hechtman L, Swanson JM, Sibley MH, Stehli A, Owens EB, Mitchell JT, Arnold LE, Molina BS, Hinshaw SP, Jensen PS, Abikoff HB, Perez Algorta G, Howard AL, Hoza B, Etcovitch J, Houssais S, Lakes KD, Nichols JQ; MTA Cooperative Group. Functional Adult Outcomes 16 Years After Childhood Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: MTA Results. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2016 Nov;55(11):945-952.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2016.07.774. Epub 2016 Sep 2. Erratum in: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2017 Jul;56(7):628. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2017.05.006. Erratum in: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2018 Mar;57(3):225. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2018.01.007. PMID: 27806862; PMCID: PMC5113724.
  5. Hinshaw SP, Nguyen PT, O'Grady SM, Rosenthal EA. Annual Research Review: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in girls and women: underrepresentation, longitudinal processes, and key directions. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2022 Apr;63(4):484-496. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13480. Epub 2021 Jul 6. PMID: 34231220.
  6. Molina BSG, Howard AL, Swanson JM, Stehli A, Mitchell JT, Kennedy TM, Epstein JN, Arnold LE, Hechtman L, Vitiello B, Hoza B. Substance use through adolescence into early adulthood after childhood-diagnosed ADHD: findings from the MTA longitudinal study. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2018 Jun;59(6):692-702. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12855. Epub 2018 Jan 8. Erratum in: J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2018 Nov;59(11):e1. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12970. PMID: 29315559; PMCID: PMC5985671.
  7. Sibley MH, Arnold LE, Swanson JM, Hechtman LT, Kennedy TM, Owens E, Molina BSG, Jensen PS, Hinshaw SP, Roy A, Chronis-Tuscano A, Newcorn JH, Rohde LA; MTA Cooperative Group. Variable Patterns of Remission From ADHD in the Multimodal Treatment Study of ADHD. Am J Psychiatry. 2022 Feb;179(2):142-151. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2021.21010032. Epub 2021 Aug 13. PMID: 34384227; PMCID: PMC8810708.
  8. Skoglund C, Sundström Poromaa I, Leksell D, Ekholm Selling K, Cars T, Giacobini M, Young S, Kopp Kallner H. Time after time: failure to identify and support females with ADHD - a Swedish population register study. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2024 Jun;65(6):832-844. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13920. Epub 2023 Nov 28. PMID: 38016697.
  9. Silva EAD Junior, Medeiros WMB, Torro N, Sousa JMM, Almeida IBCM, Costa FBD, Pontes KM, Nunes ELG, Rosa MDD, Albuquerque KLGD. Cannabis and cannabinoid use in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review. Trends Psychiatry Psychother. 2022 Jun 13;44:e20200149. doi: 10.47626/2237-6089-2020-0149. PMID: 34043900; PMCID: PMC9887656.

Authors:
Kelly Beck, PhD — Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Kristin Dalope, MD — Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Tony R. Tarchichi, MD — Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC.) Paul C. Gaffney Diagnostic Referral Group
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.