TRAITSPlain English SummaryIt is well established that autism and eating disorders often co-occur. Females are less likely to be diagnosed with autism and tend to receive a diagnosis later in life than males. Therefore, during eating disorder treatment at higher levels of care, eating disorder ...
Assigned females are more likely to have mild autism traits that go undiagnosed until they are older.8Autistic girlsare less likely to engage in repetitive behaviors anddon't act out as muchas autistic boys. They're also more likely to be seen as shy and withdrawn. If caregivers and teachers...
Autism is more commonly diagnosed in males than females. One explanation is the ‘female protective effect’: there is something inherent in being female which reduces the likelihood of developing autism. However, evidence suggests that the condition is underdiagnosed in females, perhaps because females...
When contemplating the alarming depression rates in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), there is a need to find factors explaining heightened symptoms of depression. Beyond the impact of autism traits, markedly increased levels of alexithymia traits should be considered as a candidate for expl...
The findings are part of a growing body of research focused on how ASD may affect females differently than males. The ratio of girls to boys with autism is approximately three to one. As a result of the larger numbers of males, existing data is predominantly focused on traits and challenges...
(Medical Xpress)—The largest ever psychological study of sex differences in adults with autism has found that both males and females with autism on average show an extreme of the typical male mind, where systemising (the drive to look for underlying rul
Despite the fact that both females continuously showed definite autistic traits, one woman exhibited a generalized anxiety disorder, while the other was predominantly characterized by schizoaffective symptoms. The trajectories of the two cases are discussed in the light of research on possible ...
These findings have implications for the study of autistic traits in the general population. Here, we confirm previous norms with more rigorous data and for the first time establish average AQ scores based on a systematic review, for populations of adult males and females with and without ASC. ...
A high prevalence of autism spectrum disorder is reported in children born extremely preterm (EP), but an even larger proportion of survivors are affected by subclinical difficulties than meet diagnostic criteria. The aims of this study were to investigate autistic traits associated with the broader ...
This study investigated the etiology of autistic-like traits in the general population and the etiological overlap between the three aspects of the triad o... A Ronald,F Happé,P Bolton,... - 《Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry》 被引量: 1105发表: 2006年 Neur...