Functional Brain Organization Differences Found Between Boys and Girls With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Males are more than 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with ASD than females, spurring concerns that females with ASD are going undiagnosed or experiencing delayed diagnoses because their symptoms tend to be less severe than males鈥�. If that鈥檚 the case, females could be missing out on timely .

A recent in the British Journal of Psychiatry found differences in functional brain organization between boys and girls with ASD. Whether those differences play a role in the ASD diagnoses gender gap remains to be seen, but they point out the need for research into the relationship between brain structure and ASD behaviors, the authors concluded.

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March 17, 2022

Boy Bias?

B. Dale Magee, MD | Shrewsbury, MA

If girls were found to have 4 times the likelihood of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) it would be proclaimed a crisis worthy of immediate attention, yet this article states that the high prevalence of ASD in boys may reflect a "boy bias" and that more attention needs to be paid to girls. We wouldn't want all those boys to get too much attention, would we?

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