Behavioral Health Business October 17, 2024
Children born during the pandemic are not more likely to show signs of autism, according to a study released last month in JAMA.
Additionally, the study found that “opposite to our hypothesis” the children of mothers infected with COVID were less likely to show traits of autism.
Study authors Morgan Firestein, Angela Manessis and Jennifer Warmingham, psychologists at Columbia University, examined 2,000 children total who received care at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York. They distinguished between children born in 2018 and 2019, or before the pandemic, and those birthed during COVID.
Children born during COVID could be more susceptible to an autism diagnosis because stress and viral illness during pregnancy are associated with neurodevelopmental conditions, the...
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