HealthDay (4/22) reports autism spectrum disorder (ASD) “appears to develop differently in girls and boys, so the findings of research conducted mainly with boys might not apply to girls,” investigators concluded in a study using “functional MRI…to examine brain activity during social interactions.” The study revealed that “girls with autism use different sections of their brains than girls without autism.” Researchers also found that “girls with autism had much larger numbers of rare variants of genes active during early development of a brain region called the striatum.” The findings were published online in the journal Brain.
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— “Brain Study Suggests Autism Develops Differently in Girls Than Boys “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, April 22, 2021