User:Anwer2007/sandbox

Hello! I am a fourth year medical student at UCF College of Medicine involved with WikiProject Medicine Spring 2020. Following is my workplan for improving the Autism spectrum page:

Overall: simplify some jargon e.g. change hyper- or hyposensitivity to increased or decreased sensitivity; add illustrations as needed

Introduction: add a figure to illustrate developmental disorders under the umbrella of autism spectrum disorder; add that Rett is almost exclusively in girls

Classification: add links to childhood disintegrative disorder, and PDD-NOS; add a figure to clarify the relationship between and overlap of features of Autism disorder, Asperger, and PDD-NOS.

Signs and symptoms: briefly elaborate on reason for self-injurious behavior in autistic children; move last line in third paragraph to Introduction or Classification section. Add a sentence on childhood disintegrative disorder.

Developmental course: add that childhood disintegrative disorder is characterized by regression

Pathophysiology: create a separate page for pathophysiology with the latest hypothesis for risk factors and pathogenesis of autism based on systematic reviews; explain 'confounding by indication' for the lay person

Causes: add a line about genetic and environmental interaction

Diagnosis: add a paragraph on screening recommendations and tools; add a paragraph on misdiagnosis; add most sensitive diagnostic test per Cochrane review

Treatment: Expand on 'main goals of treatment'; add subsection on prognosis

History: Mention Leo Kanner as first person to classify autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder present at birth and to reject the 'refrigerator mother' theory; ASD established as unique diagnosis from schizophrenia in 1980