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 …

[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 …

Functional connectivity-based prediction of autism on site harmonized ABIDE dataset

M Ingalhalikar, S Shinde, A Karmarkar… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: The larger sample sizes available from multi-site publicly available neuroimaging
data repositories makes machine-learning based diagnostic classification of mental …

Population heterogeneity in clinical cohorts affects the predictive accuracy of brain imaging

O Benkarim, C Paquola, B Park, V Kebets, SJ Hong… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Brain imaging research enjoys increasing adoption of supervised machine learning for
single-participant disease classification. Yet, the success of these algorithms likely depends …

Connectivity alterations in autism reflect functional idiosyncrasy

O Benkarim, C Paquola, B Park, SJ Hong… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is commonly understood as an alteration of brain networks,
yet case-control analyses against typically-developing controls (TD) have yielded …

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 …

Robust sex differences in functional brain connectivity are present in utero

KM Cook, J De Asis-Cruz, C Lopez, J Quistorff… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sex-based differences in brain structure and function are observable throughout
development and are thought to contribute to differences in behavior, cognition, and the …

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 …

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 …

Difference in default mode network subsystems in autism across childhood and adolescence

J Bathelt, HM Geurts - Autism, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Differences in the default mode network are among the most replicated brain-level findings
in autistic individuals. Furthermore, subregions within the default mode network are …