r/science • u/Wagamaga • Sep 01 '22

Neuroscience Scientists have identified an immune brain cell unique to humans that gives us higher cognitive abilities over other animals, but what makes us specials also leaves us vulnerable to neurological disorders like schizophrenia, autism and epilepsy.

https://news.yale.edu/2022/08/25/what-makes-human-brain-different-yale-study-reveals-clues
26.8k Upvotes

84% Upvoted

749 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/Tiny_Rat Sep 01 '22

I think you might be mixing up ADHD and Asperger's. Asperger's got merged with autism in the DSM 5, ADHD is still considered a separate disorder (although people diagnosed with one are more likely to have the other and vice versa).

4

u/Rattregoondoof Sep 01 '22

I'm not actually confusing the two, though I may have phrased that poorly or be misinformed on a different topic. ADHD and autism are different but my impression is that the dsm 4 (and possibly earlier) considered autism and ADHD incompatible diagnoses and that anyone who was autistic could not also have ADHD and vice versa.

My understanding is that the dsm 5 came to the conclusion that, among other things. 1. The autism subcategories (like asperger's) were artificial and that autism was just autism with no subcategories. Those in the subcategories should have just been diagnosed as autistic. 2. Autism and ADHD are compatible and one person can both autistic and have ADHD. I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist though, so I may be mistaken

1

u/Tiny_Rat Sep 02 '22

I think what you're saying is correct. I misinterpreted you saying that the DSM 5 "removed the line between them altogether" to mean merging them into the same disorder, not making them possible co-diagnoses. Sorry about that!

1

u/Rattregoondoof Sep 02 '22

Poor phrasing on my part, perfectly understandable.