{"id":616502,"date":"2026-09-15T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T05:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616502\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T05:36:09","slug":"additional-data-suggest-changes-in-diagnostics-underlie-increases-in-autism-diagnoses-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616502\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional data suggest changes in diagnostics underlie increases in autism diagnoses, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loose links: Associations between various early-life factors and later-life diagnoses of autism or attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder appear to be weakening, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamapsychiatry.2026.2722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study<\/a>. Children diagnosed with either condition differ from children without these conditions on such factors as birth weight and household income. But an analysis of records from a Danish registry revealed that these differences diminished over the decade studied: 2012 to 2022. The findings suggest that the increase in autism and ADHD prevalence reflect changes in diagnostic practices and specialized health services.<\/p>\n<p>Autism research spotted this week:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLong-read proteogenomic atlas of human neuronal differentiation reveals isoform diversity informing neurodevelopmental risk mechanisms\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-026-76675-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nature Communications<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cDe novo structural variants in autism spectrum disorder disrupt distal regulatory interactions of neuronal genes\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/gr.280394.124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Genome Research<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cAutism-risk gene mutations convergently disrupt sexually dimorphic oxytocin circuits to lower social engagement\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.64898\/2026.08.27.747579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bioRxiv<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cClinical deep sequencing to diagnose pathogenic mosaic variants in malformations of cortical development and epilepsy\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.64898\/2026.09.01.26361943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">medRxiv<\/a><br \/>See also: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetransmitter.org\/spectrum\/patchwork-mutations-present-a-new-frontier-for-autism-research\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patchwork mutations present a new frontier for autism research<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loose links: Associations between various early-life factors and later-life diagnoses of autism or attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder appear to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":["post-616502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}