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A 2026 case report describes a man in his 30s with autism, childhood temporal lobe epilepsy and treatment-resistant schizophrenia whose delusions center on fictional media characters. Clozap…
Read articleIn a 2026 case report from China, a 34-year-old woman with mild intellectual disability was sent for evaluation of possible narcolepsy. Sleep testing and EEG instead showed epilepsy and mode…
Read articleChildren with intellectual disability are 3–4x more likely to have a comorbid psychiatric disorder than peers without ID. A 2026 nationwide Korean study by Joo and colleagues tracks how thos…
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