title: Did Mozart suffer from Asperger syndrome?
abstract: The most reliable biographies of Mozart highlight elements that are compatible with current diagnostic criteria for Asperger syndrome including qualitative impairment in social interaction and stereotyped and repetitive motor mannerisms. Furthermore, numerous features are documented including difficulty in communicating his emotional state and in inferring the mental state of his interlocutors, motor clumsiness, specific skills and genius, left-handedness, special sense of humour, physical developmental abnormalities, bizarre thinking, overvalued ideas and delusions.
authors.affiliation: via Prisciano 26, Rome, Italy michele.raja@libero.it.
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Raja
mesh_terms: D020817:Asperger Syndrome / Q000266:history*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005197:Famous Persons; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations / Q000266:history; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000266:history; D009146:Music / Q000266:history*; D005879:Tourette Syndrome / Q000266:history