Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report
Jun 1, 2026 · 0 min · 11 segments
In all the recent hype on the “overprescribing” of psychiatric medications, there is a circulating rumor antidepressant use in the mother during pregnancy has could be linked to an autism diagnosis in…
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Now, even if you gaze at the news, which nobody really wants to do these days, but maybe you do, you know that the Secretary of Health and Human Services has declared that he wants to curb prescriptions for antidepressants and ADHD medications.
He claims that they are over-prescribed and can be possibly harmful to children and even adults, and that they're addictive.
While not part of his reasoning, some parents actually are concerned between the link of SSRIs and a possible link to an autism diagnosis, not in children who are already born, but the link between an SSRI exposure during pregnancy and having a child with an autism diagnosis.
A teratogen is something that, when taken during pregnancy, can cause a birth defect or even a disability.
Now, even if you gaze at the news, which nobody really wants to do these days, but maybe you do, you know that the Secretary of Health and Human Services has declared that he wants to curb prescriptions for antidepressants and ADHD medications.
He claims that they are over-prescribed and can be possibly harmful to children and even adults, and that they're addictive.
While not part of his reasoning, some parents actually are concerned between the link of SSRIs and a possible link to an autism diagnosis, not in children who are already born, but the link between an SSRI exposure during pregnancy and having a child with an autism diagnosis.
A teratogen is something that, when taken during pregnancy, can cause a birth defect or even a disability.
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