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 …

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 …

Sex differences in functional connectivity of the salience, default mode, and central executive networks in youth with ASD

KE Lawrence, LM Hernandez, HC Bowman… - Cerebral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with the altered functional connectivity of 3
neurocognitive networks that are hypothesized to be central to the symptomatology of ASD …

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 …

Altered inter‐and intrahemispheric functional connectivity dynamics in autistic children

X Guo, X Duan, H Chen, C He, J Xiao… - Human Brain …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging evidence has associated autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with static functional
connectivity abnormalities between multiple brain regions. However, the temporal dynamics …

Reduced inter-hemispheric resting state functional connectivity and its association with social deficits in autism

S Yao, B Becker, KM Kendrick - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an early onset developmental disorder which persists
throughout life and is increasing in prevalence over the last few decades. Given its early …

Patterns of brain asymmetry associated with polygenic risks for autism and schizophrenia implicate language and executive functions but not brain masculinization

Z Sha, D Schijven, C Francks - Molecular psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia have been conceived as partly
opposing disorders in terms of systemizing vs. empathizing cognitive styles, with …

Towards robust and replicable sex differences in the intrinsic brain function of autism

DL Floris, JOA Filho, MC Lai, S Giavasis, M Oldehinkel… - Molecular Autism, 2021 - Springer
Background Marked sex differences in autism prevalence accentuate the need to
understand the role of biological sex-related factors in autism. Efforts to unravel sex …

Autism in women

C Ochoa-Lubinoff, BA Makol… - Neurologic clinics, 2023 - neurologic.theclinics.com
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition
classification, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a set of behaviorally defined brainbased …

Atypical age-related changes in cortical thickness in autism spectrum disorder

AS Nunes, VA Vakorin, N Kozhemiako, N Peatfield… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Recent longitudinal neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies have shown that tracking
relative age-related changes in neural signals, rather than a static snapshot of a neural …