1. How can a psychiatrist best support a child with autism?
2. On average, how many autism cases have you had? Boys vs. girls?
3. Since we don't know the true cause of autism, in your professional opinion, what is it?
4. How often do you use medications for treatment?
5. Are medications a last resort for you? Why or why not?
6. Describe a situation in which you used medications for an autistic patient.
7. What medications are used and how are they effective? What do they target?
8. What is an SSRI?
9. What alternatives are there to medications other than common therapeutic treatments?
10. What are some developing treatments that aren't being widely used, if any?
11. Up to how many disorders have you seen coexist in one patient? Name a few.
12. Do you consider hyperlexia to be on the spectrum as some suggest?
13. What do you think of the decision to remove Asperger's and PDD-NOS from the ASD criteria and merge them on the autism spectrum? Is this a good idea?
14. What do you take into account when diagnosing autism? Do you follow the DSM by the book?
15. How often do you see anger symptoms in autistic children?
16. How effective have mri's been to finding the brain activity and possible cause of autism?
17. When, if ever, do you think we will find a cure?
18. Why exactly does self stimulating activities like spinning or waving of the hand help the child to focus?
19. Why are siblings of ADD/ADHD people more likely to have autism?
20. How does the nature vs. nurture arugument fit into the topic of autism?
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