Women with anorexia display clear autistic traits, even once the eating disorder is under control and they have achieved a normal weight, according to research from Sahlgrenska Academy. The similarities between anorexia and autism in women are also seen in a part of the brain which process social...
In the present study, affective speech prosody acts as task-irrelevant distractor while children with low (typically developed, TD) and high autistic traits (diagnosed with ASD) were involved in both intermediate and high visual attentional loads tasks, and in neutral images viewing (low load). ...
In the United States, girls represent only about 20% of autism diagnoses. While boys may simply be more likely to have autism than girls, mental health professionals suspect that girls are also more adroit at suppressing autistic traits, which could prevent their autism from being diagnosed, if ...
What About the Girls? Sex-Based Differences in Autistic Traits and Adaptive SkillsAutism spectrum disorderSex differencesDiagnosisAdaptive skillsThere is growing evidence of a camouflaging effect among females with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), particularly among those without intellectual disability, which...
There is a growing recognition of sex and gender influences in autism. Increasingly, studies include comparisons between sexes or genders, but few have focused on clarifying the characteristics of autistic girls’/women’s physical health. A scoping revi
ContextAutism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have been suggested to represent the extreme end of a normal distribution of autisticlike traits (ALTs). However,
Another limitation is some items in our healthcare experiences survey may have been more likely to be endorsed by autistic individuals since they relate to common autistic traits/experiences, for example items on shutdowns, meltdowns and sensory sensitivities. In addition, our study failed to expl...
Effects of autistic traits on social and school adjustment in children and adolescents: The moderating roles of age and gender. Research in Developmental ... C Faughn,N Marrus,J Shuman,... - 《Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders》 被引量: 10发表: 2015年 Moderating Effects of Parental...
In particular, compared to typical girls, girls with anorexia have an above average number of autistic traits, an above average interest in systems, whilst they score below average in empathy. This profile resembles – to a lesser degree – that seen in people with autism. ...
This elevation is particularly marked in females with CAH. Males with CAH have normal to high androgen concentrations prenatally. Two studies found that girls with CAH score higher on measures of autistic traits than matched relatives (Knickmeyer et al., 2006a, Kung et al., 2016a), however,...