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 …

Sex differences in autism spectrum disorder: diagnostic, neurobiological, and behavioral features

A Napolitano, S Schiavi, P La Rosa… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder with a
worldwide prevalence of about 1%, characterized by impairments in social interaction …

The default mode network in autism

A Padmanabhan, CJ Lynch, M Schaer… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by deficits in social communication and
interaction. Since its discovery as a major functional brain system, the default mode network …

Autism spectrum disorder in adults: diagnosis, management, and health services development

CM Murphy, CE Wilson, DM Robertson… - Neuropsychiatric …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder characterized
by pervasive difficulties since early childhood across reciprocal social communication and …

Large-scale analyses of the relationship between sex, age and intelligence quotient heterogeneity and cortical morphometry in autism spectrum disorder

SA Bedford, MTM Park, GA Devenyi, S Tullo… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Significant heterogeneity across aetiologies, neurobiology and clinical phenotypes have
been observed in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Neuroimaging-based …

The neuroanatomy of autism spectrum disorder: An overview of structural neuroimaging findings and their translatability to the clinical setting

C Ecker - Autism, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Autism spectrum disorder is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder, which is accompanied
by differences in brain anatomy, functioning and brain connectivity. Due to its …

Brain-based sex differences in autism spectrum disorder across the lifespan: A systematic review of structural MRI, fMRI, and DTI findings

MJM Walsh, GL Wallace, SM Gallegos, BB Braden - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2021 - Elsevier
Females with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been long overlooked in neuroscience
research, but emerging evidence suggests they show distinct phenotypic trajectories and …

Imaging sex/gender and autism in the brain: etiological implications

MC Lai, JP Lerch, DL Floris… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The male preponderance in autism prevalence has brought together the disparate topics of
sex/gender and autism research. Two directions of neuroimaging studies on the …

Partially impaired functional connectivity states between right anterior insula and default mode network in autism spectrum disorder

X Guo, X Duan, J Suckling, H Chen, W Liao… - Human brain …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Time‐invariant resting‐state functional connectivity studies have illuminated the crucial role
of the right anterior insula (rAI) in prominent social impairments of autism spectrum disorder …

[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 …