Neuroanatomical deficits shared by youth with autism spectrum disorders and psychotic disorders

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and early‐onset psychosis (EOP) are neurodevelopmental disorders that share genetic, clinical and cognitive facets; it is unclear if these disorders also share spatially overlapping cortical thickness (CT) and surface area (SA) abnormalities. MRI scans of 30 ASD, 29 patients with early‐onset first‐episode psychosis (EO‐FEP) and 26 typically developing controls (TD) (age range 10–18 years) were analyzed by the...