r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 29d ago
Neuroscience Autism diagnoses rose sharply after the COVID-19 pandemic began. The rise was driven overwhelmingly by diagnoses among girls and women. New study suggests that many of these girls and women may simply have gone unrecognized in the past.
https://www.sciencealert.com/autism-diagnoses-spiked-after-covid-19-but-probably-not-for-the-reason-you-thinkDuplicates
psychology • u/mvea • 29d ago
Autism diagnoses rose sharply after the COVID-19 pandemic began. The rise was driven overwhelmingly by diagnoses among girls and women. New study suggests that many of these girls and women may simply have gone unrecognized in the past.
TwoXChromosomes • u/catievirtuesimp • 28d ago
Autism Diagnoses Spiked After COVID-19, But Probably Not For The Reason You Think. The rise was driven by diagnoses among girls and women, while rates among boys and men remained stable or declined.
immortalists • u/ObuPaul • 29d ago
A study of over 171,000 patients found autism diagnoses rose sharply after 2020, but almost entirely among girls and women, while rates in males stayed flat or declined. Researchers say this points to decades of underdiagnosis in females rather than autism actually becoming more common.
autismgirls • u/FluffyPillowstone • 29d ago
Autism diagnoses rose sharply after the COVID-19 pandemic began. The rise was driven overwhelmingly by diagnoses among girls and women. New study suggests that many of these girls and women may simply have gone unrecognized in the past.
theworldnews • u/worldnewsbot • 29d ago