A transdiagnostic model of psychiatric symptom co‐occurrence and autism spectrum disorder

Understanding whether the co‐occurrence of psychiatric symptoms within autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are specific to the ASD diagnosis or reflect similar higher‐order patterns observed in both ASD and non‐ASD samples, or a confluence of the two, is of critical importance. If similar, it would suggest that comorbid psychiatric conditions among individuals with ASD are not symptoms of specific, non‐ASD psychiatric disorders per se, but reflect a...