Please click here to log in with you RCPsych web account details; you will be redirected back to CPD Online.If you have forgotten your College web account details, you will be able to reset them here.
Please click here to log in if your institution has a subscription to CPD Online with Athens access.
Please click here to log in if you are subscribed through Medicom Netherlands.
If you having troubles signing in with the options above, please try this alternative login route.
by Dr Nick Tarrant and Dr Meera Roy
Last updated: March 2021
Patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can present with a wide variety of symptoms and behaviours. While some of these may be core features of autism, some are not. Others may mask potentially co-existing conditions amenable to pharmacological treatments.
This module looks at the role of medication in ASD, while acknowledging the absence of any evidence that psychopharmacological agents have a direct effect on their core features.
The module will not consider the treatment of conditions that co-exist with ASD, such as anxiety disorders, depressive illnesses and psychotic disorders; however, some of the same principles will apply.
Start the module
Autism spectrum disorders in adults: a brief introduction by Dr Yasir Hameed and Dr Jaap Hamelijnck
Complementary medicines for ASD and ADHD by Dr Ursula Werneke
Or why not try another Quickbite module?:
Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in adults by Dr Peter Carpenter
Complex PTSD in children and adolescents by Dr Margaret DeJong and Dr Jacob Ellis
About Quickbite modules
Related Advances articles
Download take-home notes to print and annotate