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      Association between the probability of autism spectrum disorder and normative sex-related phenotypic diversity in brain structure 

      Ecker, C.; Andrews, Derek Sayre; Gudbrandsen, Christina M.; Marquand, Andre F.; Ginestet, Cedric E.; Daly, Eileen M.; Murphy, Clodagh M.; Lai, Meng-Chuan; Lombardo, Michael V.; Ruigrok, Amber N. V.; Bullmore, Edward T.; Suckling, John; Williams, Steven C. R.; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Craig, Michael C.; Murphy, Declan G. M. (2017)
      IMPORTANCE Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is 2 to 5 times more common in male individuals than in female individuals. While the male preponderant prevalence of ASD might partially be explained by sex differences in clinical ...
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      Biological sex affects the neurobiology of autism 

      Lai,Meng-Chuan; Lombardo,Michael V.; Suckling,John; Ruigrok,Amber N. V.; Chakrabarti,B.; Ecker,C.; Deoni,Sean C. L.; Craig, Michael C.; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Bullmore,Edward T.; Baron-Cohen,Simon (2013)
      In autism, heterogeneity is the rule rather than the exception. One obvious source of heterogeneity is biological sex. Since autism was first recognized, males with autism have disproportionately skewed research. Females ...
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      Cognition in Males and Females with Autism: Similarities and Differences 

      Lai,Meng-Chuan; Lombardo,Michael V.; Ruigrok,Amber N. V.; Chakrabarti,B.; Wheelwright,Sally J.; Auyeung, Bonnie; Allison, Carrie; Bailey, Anthony J.; Baron-Cohen,Simon; Bolton, P. F.; Bullmore,Edward T.; Carrington, S.; Catani, Marco; Craig, Michael C.; Daly,Eileen M.; Deoni,Sean C. L.; Ecker,C.; Happé,Francesca; Henty, Julian; Jezzard, Peter; Johnston,Patrick; Jones, D. K.; Madden, A.; Mullins, D.; Murphy,Clodagh M.; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Pasco, Greg; Sadek,Susan A.; Spain,D.; Stewart, R.; Suckling,John; Williams,Steven C. R.; Baron-Cohen,Simon (2012)
      The male bias in autism spectrum conditions (ASC) has led to females with ASC being under-researched. This lack of attention to females could hide variability due to sex that may explain some of the heterogeneity within ...
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      Decreased centrality of cortical volume covariance networks in autism spectrum disorders 

      Balardin, J. B.; Comfort, W. E.; Daly, Eileen M.; Murphy, Clodagh M.; Andrews, Derek Sayre; Murphy, Declan G. M.; Ecker, C.; Sato, J. R.; Bailey, Anthony J.; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Bolton, P. F.; Bullmore, Edward T.; Carrington, S.; Catani, Marco; Chakrabarti, B.; Craig, Michael C.; Daly, Eileen M.; Deoni, Sean C. L.; Happé, Francesca; Henty, Julian; Jezzard, Peter; Johnston, Patrick; Jones, D. K.; Lai, Meng-Chuan; Lombardo, Michael V.; Madden, A.; Mullins, D.; Murphy, Clodagh M.; Murphy, Declan G. M.; Pasco, Greg; Ruigrok, Amber N. V.; Sadek, Susan A.; Spain, D.; Stewart, R.; Suckling, John; Wheelwright, Sally J.; Williams, Steven C. R.; Wilson, C. E.; MRC AIMS Consortium (2015)
      Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of neurodevelopmental conditions characterized by atypical structural and functional brain connectivity. Complex network analysis has been mainly used to describe altered ...
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      Frontal networks in adults with autism spectrum disorder 

      Catani, Marco; Dell’Acqua, Flavio; Budisavljevic, Sanja; Howells, Henrietta; Schotten, Thiebaut De; Froudist-Walsh, Sean; D'Anna, Lucio; Thompson, A.; Sandrone, Stefano; Bullmore,Edward T.; Suckling,John; Baron-Cohen,Simon; Lombardo,Michael V.; Wheelwright,Sally J.; Chakrabarti,B.; Lai,Meng-Chuan; Ruigrok,Amber N. V.; Leemans, Alexander; Ecker,C.; Craig, Michael C.; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Bailey, Anthony J.; Bolton, P. F.; Carrington, S.; Daly,Eileen M.; Deoni,Sean C. L.; Happé,Francesca; Henty, Julian; Jezzard, Peter; Johnston,Patrick; Jones, D. K.; Madden, A.; Mullins, D.; Murphy,Clodagh M.; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Pasco, Greg; Ruigrok,Amber N. V.; Sadek,Susan A.; Spain,D.; Stewart, R.; Williams,Steven C. R. (2016)
      It has been postulated that autism spectrum disorder is underpinned by an 'atypical connectivity' involving higher-order association brain regions. To test this hypothesis in a large cohort of adults with autism spectrum ...
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      In Vivo Evidence of Reduced Integrity of the Gray-White Matter Boundary in Autism Spectrum Disorder 

      Andrews, Derek Sayre; Avino, Thomas A.; Gudbrandsen, Maria; Daly, Eileen M.; Marquand, Andre F.; Murphy, Clodagh M.; Lai, Meng-Chuan; Lombardo, Michael V.; Ruigrok, Amber N. V.; Williams, Steven C. R.; Bullmore, Edward T.; Suckling, John; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Craig, Michael C.; Murphy, Declan G. M.; Ecker, Christine (2017)
      Atypical cortical organization and reduced integrity of the gray-white matter boundary have been reported by postmortem studies in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, there are no in vivo studies that ...
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      Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Does Self-Report with the OCI-R Tell Us? 

      Cadman, T.; Spain,D.; Johnston,Patrick; Russell, A.; Mataix-Cols, D.; Craig, Michael C.; Deeley, Q.; Robertson, D. M.; Murphy,Clodagh M.; Gillan, N.; Wilson, C. E.; Mendez, M.; Ecker,C.; Daly,Eileen M.; Findon, J.; Glaser, K.; Bailey, Anthony J.; Baron-Cohen,Simon; Bolton, P. F.; Bullmore,Edward T.; Carrington, S.; Chakrabarti,B.; Daly,Eileen M.; Deoni,Sean C. L.; Ecker,C.; Happé,Francesca; Henty, Julian; Jezzard, Peter; Johnston,Patrick; Jones, D. K.; Lombardo,Michael V.; Madden, A.; Mullins, D.; Murphy,Clodagh M.; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Pasco, Greg; Sadek,Susan A.; Spain,D.; Steward, R.; Suckling,John; Wheelwright,Sally J.; Williams,Steven C. R.; Happé,Francesca; Murphy,Clodagh M. (2015)
      Little is known about the symptom profile of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in individuals who have autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It is also unknown whether self-report questionnaires are useful in measuring OCD ...
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      On the brain structure heterogeneity of autism: Parsing out acquisition site effects with significance-weighted principal component analysis 

      Martinez-Murcia, Francisco; Lai,Meng-Chuan; Górriz, Juan Manuel; Ramirez, Javier; Young, Adam M. H.; Deoni,Sean C. L.; Ecker,C.; Lombardo,Michael V.; MRC AIMS Consortium; Baron-Cohen,Simon; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Bullmore,Edward T.; Suckling,John; Bailey, Anthony J.; Baron-Cohen,Simon; Bolton, P. F.; Bullmore,Edward T.; Carrington, S.; Catani, Marco; Chakrabarti,B.; Craig, Michael C.; Daly,Eileen M.; Deoni,Sean C. L.; Ecker,C.; Happé,Francesca; Henty, Julian; Jezzard, Peter; Johnston,Patrick; Jones, D. K.; Lai,Meng-Chuan; Lombardo,Michael V.; Madden, A.; Mullins, D.; Murphy,Clodagh M.; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Pasco, Greg; Ruigrok,Amber N. V.; Sadek,Susan A.; Spain,D.; Stewart, R.; Suckling,John; Wheelwright,Sally J.; Williams,Steven C. R. (2017)
      Neuroimaging studies have reported structural and physiological differences that could help understand the causes and development of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Many of them rely on multisite designs, with the recruitment ...
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      Relationship between surface-based brain morphometric measures and intelligence in autism spectrum disorders: Influence of history of language delay 

      Balardin, J. B.; Sato, J. R.; Vieira, G.; Feng, Yue; Daly,Eileen M.; Murphy,Clodagh M.; Bailey, Anthony J.; Carrington, S.; Jezzard, Peter; Stewart, R.; Baron-Cohen,Simon; Bullmore,Edward T.; Chakrabarti,B.; Henty, Julian; Lai,Meng-Chuan; Lombardo,Michael V.; Pasco, Greg; Ruigrok,Amber N. V.; Sadek,Susan A.; Suckling,John; Wheelwright,Sally J.; Bolton, P. F.; Catani, Marco; Craig, Michael C.; Daly,Eileen M.; Deoni,Sean C. L.; Ecker,C.; Happé,Francesca; Johnston,Patrick; Jones, D. K.; Madden, A.; Mullins, D.; Murphy,Clodagh M.; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Spain,D.; Williams,Steven C. R.; Wilson, C. E.; Murphy,Clodagh M. (2015)
      Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of conditions that show abnormalities in the neuroanatomy of multiple brain regions. The variability in the development of intelligence and language among individuals on the ...
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      Sex differences in frontal lobe connectivity in adults with autism spectrum conditions 

      Zeestraten, E. A.; Gudbrandsen, Maria; Daly,Eileen M.; de Schotten, Michel Thiebaut; Catani, Marco; Dell’Acqua, Flavio; Lai,Meng-Chuan; Ruigrok,Amber N. V.; Lombardo,Michael V.; Chakrabarti,B.; Baron-Cohen,Simon; Ecker,C.; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Craig, Michael C. (2017)
      Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are more prevalent in males than females. The biological basis of this difference remains unclear. It has been postulated that one of the primary causes of ASC is a partial disconnection ...
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      Unsupervised data-driven stratification of mentalizing heterogeneity in autism 

      Lombardo,Michael V.; Lai,Meng-Chuan; Auyeung, Bonnie; Holt, R. J.; Allison, Carrie; Smith, P.; Chakrabarti,B.; Ruigrok,Amber N. V.; Suckling,John; Bullmore,Edward T.; Ecker,C.; Craig, Michael C.; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Happé,Francesca; Baron-Cohen,Simon (2016)
      Individuals affected by autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are considerably heterogeneous. Novel approaches are needed to parse this heterogeneity to enhance precision in clinical and translational research. Applying a ...
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      White matter microstructural abnormalities in the frontal lobe of adults with antisocial personality disorder 

      Sundram, F.; Deeley, Q.; Sarkar, S.; Daly,Eileen M.; Latham, R.; Craig, Michael C.; Raczek, M.; Fahy, T.; Picchioni, M.; Barker, G. J.; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Bailey, Anthony J.; Baron-Cohen,Simon; Bolton, P. F.; Bullmore,Edward T.; Carrington, S.; Chakrabarti,B.; Daly,Eileen M.; Deoni,Sean C. L.; Ecker,C.; Happé,Francesca; Henty, Julian; Jezzard, Peter; Johnston,Patrick; Jones, D. K.; Lai,Meng-Chuan; Lombardo,Michael V.; Madden, A.; Mullins, D.; Murphy,Clodagh M.; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Pasco, Greg; Sadek,Susan A.; Spain,D.; Steward, R.; Suckling,John; Wheelwright,Sally J.; Williams,Steven C. R. (2012)
      Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and psychopathy involve significant interpersonal and behavioural impairments. However, little is known about their underlying neurobiology and in particular, abnormalities in white ...