Publisher's Synopsis
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), one of the most frequent comorbidities of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), can further compromise a child's ability to function in a classroom or other social settings.
Although imaging studies have shown structural differences between the brains of children with either disorder and those of typical controls, few studies have compared the brains of children with ASD to the brains of children with ADHD--and only one has examined whether symptoms that co-occur across diagnoses arise from shared structural abnormalities.
The signs of autism, also called autism spectrum disorder or ASD, can range in severity. While ADHD (also known as ADD) isn't a spectrum disorder, like autism it can produce a range of symptoms. And each symptom can cause a range of difficulty from one child to the next. So what's the difference between ADHD and autism?
