Quantitative and qualitative sex modulations in the brain anatomy of autism

C Hammill, JP Lerch, MJ Taylor, SH Ameis… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Sex-based neurobiological heterogeneity in autism is poorly understood.
Research is disproportionately biased to males, leading to an unwarranted presumption that …

[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 …

Biological sex affects the neurobiology of autism

MC Lai, MV Lombardo, J Suckling, ANV Ruigrok… - Brain, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In autism, heterogeneity is the rule rather than the exception. One obvious source of
heterogeneity is biological sex. Since autism was first recognized, males with autism have …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …