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Autism & Gender

Autism's gender patterns. Having one child with autism is a well-known risk factor for having another one with the same disorder, but whether and how a sibling's gender influences this risk has remained largely unknown. Now new research has, for the first time, successfully quantified the likelihood that a family who has one child with autism would have another one with the same disorder based on the siblings' gender. Source 6f.

Gender and Autism

Signaling pathway may be key to why autism is more common in boys. Researchers have discovered sex differences in a brain signaling pathway involved in reward learning and motivation that make male mice more vulnerable to an autism-causing genetic glitch. Source 9m.

Autism & Gender Health & Special Psychology

Researchers identify role sex-biased protein may play in autism. Researchers are one step closer to helping answer the question of why autism is four times more common in boys than in girls after identifying and characterizing the connection of certain proteins in the brain to autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Source 7p.

Gender and Autism

I feel it has to do with genetics or mutation to some kind of degree, I think it's either happening during the mother's pregnancy or the genes 'activate' when certain factors as met (E.g environment), causing the dramatic change of mind, body and neurological developments.

Gender and Autism

Girls and boys on autism spectrum tell stories differently, could explain 'missed diagnosis' in girls. A new study examined differences in the way girls and boys on the autism spectrum used certain types of words during storytelling. This study found that autistic girls used significantly more 'cognitive process' words such as 'think' and 'know' than autistic boys, despite comparable autism symptom severity. Source 3b.

Autism & Gender

Study shows differences between brains of girls, boys with autism. Girls with autism differ in several brain centers compared with boys with autism, suggesting gender-specific diagnostics are needed, a new study using artificial intelligence finds. Source 8i.

Autism & Gender

Epidemiological studies indicate that there are 3 times as many boys affected with autism as girls, but clinical studies indicate a much greater preponderance in favor of boys. There is underdetection of autism with a late or wrong diagnosis more frequently in girls and women with autism.