Intellectual disabilities moderate sex/gender differences in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

E Saure, M Castrén, K Mikkola… - Journal of Intellectual …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Girls/women with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are suggested to exhibit
different symptom profiles than boys/men with ASD. Accumulating evidence suggests that …

Differently different?: A commentary on the emerging social cognitive neuroscience of female autism

G Rippon - Biology of sex differences, 2024 - Springer
Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition, behaviourally identified, which is generally
characterised by social communication differences, and restrictive and repetitive patterns of …

Exclusion of females in autism research: Empirical evidence for a “leaky” recruitment‐to‐research pipeline

AM D'Mello, IR Frosch, CE Li, AL Cardinaux… - Autism …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by challenges in social communication and
the presence of repetitive behaviors or restricted interests. Notably, males are four times as …

Sex differences in trajectories of cortical development in autistic children from 2–13 years of age

DS Andrews, K Diers, JK Lee, DJ Harvey, B Heath… - Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Previous studies have reported alterations in cortical thickness in autism. However, few have
included enough autistic females to determine if there are sex specific differences in cortical …

Reading covered faces

MA Pavlova, AA Sokolov - Cerebral Cortex, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Covering faces with masks, due to mandatory pandemic safety regulations, we can no
longer rely on the habitual daily-life information. This may be thought-provoking for healthy …

Why do we need sex‐balanced studies of autism?

CW Nordahl - Autism Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Males are diagnosed with autism much more frequently than females, and most research
study samples reflect this male predominance. The result is that autistic females are …

[HTML][HTML] Stratifying ASD and characterizing the functional connectivity of subtypes in resting-state fMRI

P Ren, Q Bi, W Pang, M Wang, Q Zhou, X Ye… - Behavioural Brain …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstracts Background Although stratifying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) into different
subtypes is a common effort in the research field, few papers have characterized the …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in resting state functional connectivity across the first two years of life

SJ Fenske, J Liu, H Chen, MA Diniz… - Developmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sex differences in behavior have been reported from infancy through adulthood, but little is
known about sex effects on functional circuitry in early infancy. Moreover, the relationship …

[HTML][HTML] The diagnosis and management of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in adult females in the presence or absence of an intellectual disability

T Rujeedawa, SH Zaman - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2022 - mdpi.com
We review the reasons for the greater male predominance in the diagnosis of autism
spectrum disorder in the non-intellectual disabled population and compare it to autism …

Learning with labyrinths: Neurodivergent journeying towards new concepts of care and creative pedagogy through participatory community autism research

N Shaughnessy - Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 2022 - ajol.info
This paper arises from a UK research project, Playing A/Part, which explores the identities
and experiences of autistic girls through creative practices and the implications for …