Towards equitable diagnoses for autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder across sexes and genders

MC Lai, HY Lin, SH Ameis - Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Towards equitable diagnoses for autism and attention-deficit... : Current Opinion in Psychiatry
Towards equitable diagnoses for autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder across sexes …

Diagnostic tools for autism spectrum disorders by gender: Analysis of current status and future lines

E Navarro-Pardo, MF López-Ramón, Y Alonso-Esteban… - Children, 2021 - mdpi.com
Studies on the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders have shown gender disproportion.
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in this investigation area. There are …

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 the temporal dynamics of autistic children's natural conversations

S Cho, M Cola, A Knox, MR Pelella, A Russell… - Molecular Autism, 2023 - Springer
Background Autistic girls are underdiagnosed compared to autistic boys, even when they
experience similar clinical impact. Research suggests that girls present with distinct …

Speech and language patterns in autism: towards natural language processing as a research and clinical tool

J Trayvick, SB Barkley, A McGowan, A Srivastava… - Psychiatry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Speech and language differences have long been described as important characteristics of
autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Linguistic abnormalities range from prosodic differences in …

Friend matters: sex differences in social language during autism diagnostic interviews

M Cola, LD Yankowitz, K Tena, A Russell, L Bateman… - Molecular autism, 2022 - Springer
Background Autistic individuals frequently experience social communication challenges.
Girls are diagnosed with autism less often than boys even when their symptoms are equally …

Sex differences in friendships and loneliness in autistic and non-autistic children across development

N Libster, A Knox, S Engin, D Geschwind… - Molecular autism, 2023 - Springer
Background Autistic children have been shown to have less complete definitions of
friendships and higher levels of loneliness than their non-autistic peers. However, no known …

Sex differences in social and emotional insight in youth with and without autism

H Mattern, M Cola, KG Tena, A Knox, A Russell… - Molecular Autism, 2023 - Springer
Autism was formally recognized by the medical community in the first half of the twentieth
century. Almost 100 years later, a small but growing literature has reported sex differences in …

Is There a Bias Towards Males in the Diagnosis of Autism? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

S Cruz, SCP Zubizarreta, AD Costa, R Araújo… - Neuropsychology …, 2024 - Springer
Autism is more frequently diagnosed in males, with evidence suggesting that females are
more likely to be misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed. Possibly, the male/female ratio …

“You should smile more”: Population-level sex differences in smiling also exist in autistic people

CJ Zampella, J Parish-Morris, J Foy, M Cola… - …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Societal expectations for social-emotional behavior differ across sexes; however, diagnostic
definitions of autism do not account for this when delineating “typical” versus “atypical.” This …