The effect of gender on the neuroanatomy of children with autism spectrum disorders: a support vector machine case-control study

A Retico, A Giuliano, R Tancredi, A Cosenza… - Molecular autism, 2016 - Springer
Background Genetic, hormonal, and environmental factors contribute since infancy to sexual
dimorphism in regional brain structures of subjects with typical development. However, the …

Similarly expanded bilateral temporal lobe volumes in female and male children with autism spectrum disorder

X Di, BB Biswal - Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is more prevalent in male than female
individuals. Very few studies have examined sex modulations of brain anatomical …

Developmental neurogenetics and multimodal neuroimaging of sex differences in autism

C Chen, JD Van Horn… - Brain imaging and …, 2017 - Springer
Examining sex differences in the brain has been historically contentious but is nonetheless
important for advancing mental health for both girls and boys. Unfortunately, females in …

Sex differences along the autism continuum: A twin study of brain structure

É Cauvet, A Van't Westeinde, R Toro… - Cerebral …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Females might possess protective mechanisms regarding autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
and require a higher detrimental load, including structural brain alterations, before …

Sex differences in cortical volume and gyrification in autism

M Schaer, J Kochalka, A Padmanabhan, K Supekar… - Molecular Autism, 2015 - Springer
Background Male predominance is a prominent feature of autism spectrum disorders (ASD),
with a reported male to female ratio of 4: 1. Because of the overwhelming focus on males …

Sex differentiation of brain structures in autism: Findings from a gray matter asymmetry study

Z Deng, S Wang - Autism Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is diagnosed much more often in males than females. This
male predominance has prompted a number of studies to examine how sex differences are …

Sex/gender differences in children with autism spectrum disorder: A brief overview on epidemiology, symptom profile, and neuroanatomy

S Calderoni - Journal of Neuroscience Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental
conditions whose shared core features are impairments in social interaction and …

Autism attenuates sex differences in brain structure: a combined voxel-based morphometry and diffusion tensor imaging study

FD Beacher, L Minati, S Baron-Cohen… - American Journal …, 2012 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: It has been proposed that autism spectrums condition may
represent a form of extreme male brain (EMB), a notion supported by psychometric …

Female children with autism spectrum disorder: an insight from mass-univariate and pattern classification analyses

S Calderoni, A Retico, L Biagi, R Tancredi, F Muratori… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
Several studies on structural MRI in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have
mainly focused on samples prevailingly consisting of males. Sex differences in brain …

[HTML][HTML] Sex/gender differences in the human autistic brains: A systematic review of 20 years of neuroimaging research

K Mo, T Sadoway, S Bonato, SH Ameis… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2021 - Elsevier
Our current understanding of autism is largely based on clinical experiences and research
involving male individuals given the male-predominance in prevalence and the under …