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      Autism attenuates sex differences in brain structure: A combined voxel-based morphometry and diffusion tensor imaging study 

      Beacher, Felix D. C. C.; Minati, L.; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Lombardo, Michael V.; Lai, Meng-Chuan; Gray, Marcus A.; Harrison, Neil A.; Critchley, Hugo D. (2012)
      BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: It has been proposed that autism spectrums condition may represent a form of extreme male brain (EMB), a notion supported by psychometric, behavioral, and endocrine evidence. Yet, limited data are ...
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      Sex differences and Autism: Brain function during verbal fluency and mental rotation 

      Beacher, Felix D. C. C.; Radulescu, Eugenia; Minati, L.; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Lombardo, Michael V.; Lai, Meng-Chuan; Walker, Anne; Howard, Dawn; Gray, Marcus A.; Harrison, Neil A.; Critchley, Hugo D. (2012)
      Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) affect more males than females. This suggests that the neurobiology of autism: 1) may overlap with mechanisms underlying typical sex-differentiation or 2) alternately reflect sex-specificity ...