Table 5.

Severity of the Autism Rating Scale (ARS) scores in the two patient groups.

ARS	SCZ-r (N = 26)		BD-e (N = 28)		p
	Mean ± SD	Range	Mean ± SD	Range
Hypo-attunement	11.69 ± 3.31	5–19	4.61 ± 1.66	3–9	0.0001
Invasiveness	10.58 ± 4.74	3–19	5.07 ± 1.98	3–10	0.0001
Cenesthopatic/emotional flooding	7.04 ± 2.58	2–11	3.00 ± 1.51	2–8	0.0001
Algorithmic conception of sociality	7.88 ± 4.79	3–17	3.68 ± 1.02	3–6	0.0001
Antithetical attitude toward sociality	8.38 ± 3.88	3–17	4.18 ± 1.41	3–9	0.0001
Idionomia	5.85 ± 3.56	2–13	3.57 ± 2.00	2–8	0.01
ARS global score	51.42 ± 16.37	25–80	24.11 ± 6.41	17–41	0.000000001

SCZ-r, Subjects affected by schizophrenia with remitted positive symptoms; BD-e, Subjects affected by bipolar disorder-type I with psychotic features during a euthymic phase; SD, Standard Deviation.