title: Autism spectrum disorders in the DSM-V: better or worse than the DSM-IV?
abstract: The DSM-V-committee has recently published proposed diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders. We examine these criteria in some detail. We believe that the DSM-committee has overlooked a number of important issues, including social imagination, diagnosis in infancy and adulthood, and the possibility that girls and women with autism may continue to go unrecognised or misdiagnosed under the new manual. We conclude that a number of changes need to be made in order that the DSM-V-criteria might be used reliably and validly in clinical practice and research.
authors.affiliation: The NAS Lorna Wing Centre for Autism, Elliot House, 113 Masons Hill, Bromley, Kent BR2 9HT, UK.
authors.forename: Lorna
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wing
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gould
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gillberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000592:standards*; D012727:Sex Characteristics