intellectual disability Archives

Copy Number Variants Did Not Moderate ADHD or Autism Outcomes in ALSPAC

by GLOOM

Photoreal illustration of DNA strands and developmental timeline overlaid on a schematic young adult, conveying genetic moderation of childhood neurodevelopmental outcomes.

A 2026 ALSPAC analysis tested a narrow claim behind routine genetic screening for childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD): whether rare copy number variants (CNVs; deleted or duplicated DNA segments) make young-adult outcomes worse than ADHD/ASD status alone would predict. In 8,414 people with usable CNV data, ADHD and ASD predicted worse …

Intellectual Disability in Korean Children and Psychiatric Disorders (ADHD 42%, Depression 19%)

by GLOOM

Photoreal illustration of a child interacting with cognitive and developmental motifs, representing intellectual disability and psychiatric comorbidity.

Children with intellectual disability are 3–4x more likely to have a comorbid psychiatric disorder than peers without ID. A 2026 nationwide Korean study by Joo and colleagues tracks how those rates changed across a decade.1 Research Highlights Korean children and adolescents (ages 2–18) with intellectual disability had ADHD comorbidity rise from 30.2% in 2012 to …