Open AccessRapid and spontaneous recovery in autistic disorder
Author(s) -
Prabhat Sitholey,
Vivek Agarwal,
Amol Pargaonkar
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.55092
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , autistic spectrum disorder , spontaneous recovery , psychology , psychiatry , medicine , autism , neuroscience
Recovery in autistic disorder is rare. There are few reports of recovery from autistic disorder after a few years of therapeutic intervention. We report here a case of autistic disorder who recovered spontaneously without any intervention in 13 days.