A case report of becker’s musculer dystrophy presenting with autistic symptoms
Şaziye Senem Başgül, Sema Saltık
Article No:
10
Article Type :
Case Report
Becker’s muscular dystrophy is a hereditary chronic progressive muscle disease. It is reported that the incidence of autism, a developmental neuropsychiatric disorder in the hereditary muscle diseases is higher than in the normal population. In this paper, a 4 years 3 months old male patient who was diagnosed with autistic symptoms when he was 20-months old and diagnosed with Becker’s muscular dystrophy when he was 3-years-old, is presented.
Keywords :
Becker’s muscular dystrophy, autism, neuropsychiatric disorder.
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
2012;25:74-77
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