Sex differences in autism spectrum disorder: a review

SL Ferri, T Abel, ES Brodkin - Current psychiatry reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Neurodevelopmental disorders disproportionately affect males.
The mechanisms underlying male vulnerability or female protection are not known and …

Dendritic structural plasticity and neuropsychiatric disease

MP Forrest, E Parnell, P Penzes - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
The structure of neuronal circuits that subserve cognitive functions in the brain is shaped
and refined throughout development and into adulthood. Evidence from human and animal …

What about the girls? Sex-based differences in autistic traits and adaptive skills

AB Ratto, L Kenworthy, BE Yerys, J Bascom… - Journal of autism and …, 2018 - Springer
There is growing evidence of a camouflaging effect among females with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD), particularly among those without intellectual disability, which may affect …

Glutamate and GABA in autism spectrum disorder—a translational magnetic resonance spectroscopy study in man and rodent models

J Horder, MM Petrinovic, MA Mendez, A Bruns… - Translational …, 2018 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a pervasive neurodevelopmental syndrome with a high
human and economic burden. The pathophysiology of ASD is largely unclear, thus …

PSD95: A synaptic protein implicated in schizophrenia or autism?

AA Coley, WJ Gao - Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The molecular components of the postsynaptic density (PSD) in excitatory synapses of the
brain are currently being investigated as one of the major etiologies of neurodevelopmental …

[PDF][PDF] Comparative analyses of copy-number variation in autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia reveal etiological overlap and biological insights

I Kushima, B Aleksic, M Nakatochi, T Shimamura… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Compelling evidence in Caucasian populations suggests a role for copy-number variations
(CNVs) in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia (SCZ). We analyzed 1,108 …

Social deficits in Shank3-deficient mouse models of autism are rescued by histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibition

L Qin, K Ma, ZJ Wang, Z Hu, E Matas, J Wei… - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Haploinsufficiency of the SHANK3 gene is causally linked to autism spectrum disorder
(ASD), and ASD-associated genes are also enriched for chromatin remodelers. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] A genetic investigation of sex bias in the prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

J Martin, RK Walters, D Demontis, M Mattheisen… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) shows substantial heritability
and is two to seven times more common in male individuals than in female individuals. We …

[PDF][PDF] Complete disruption of autism-susceptibility genes by gene editing predominantly reduces functional connectivity of isogenic human neurons

E Deneault, SH White, DC Rodrigues, PJ Ross… - Stem cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous. We
present a CRISPR gene editing strategy to insert a protein tag and premature termination …

[PDF][PDF] De novo sequence and copy number variants are strongly associated with tourette disorder and implicate cell polarity in pathogenesis

S Wang, JD Mandell, Y Kumar, N Sun, MT Morris… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
We previously established the contribution of de novo damaging sequence variants to
Tourette disorder (TD) through whole-exome sequencing of 511 trios. Here, we sequence …