Back to the future:Some similarities and many differences between autism spectrum disorder and early onset schizophrenia.Clues to pathophysiology?

回到未来:孤独症谱系障碍与早发型精神分裂症之间的一些相似之处和许多不同之处.病理生理学的线索?

In the first issue of the recently launched journal,Medicine Plus,Lu et al.[1]report on a remarkable effort encompassing nearly 600 young participants examined at five centers in China.The focus was on the first episode early-onset schizophrenia(EOS;onset before age 18 years)and autism spectrum disorder(ASD),contrasted to each other and healthy controls(HC).Historically,autism was initially considered a form of infantile schizophrenia,although it was differentiated from early-onset schizophrenia as early as 1955 by Eisenberg and Kanner[2].