HealthDay (2/21, Preidt) reports investigators “have discovered differences between the brains of girls and boys with autism that they say may improve diagnosis of the developmental disorder in girls.” After utilizing “artificial intelligence to analyze MRI brain scans from 637 boys and 136 girls with autism worldwide,” researchers concluded that “girls had different patterns of connectivity from the boys in several brain centers, including motor, language and visuospatial attention systems,” with “the largest differences between the sexes…in a group of motor areas.” The findings were published online Feb. 15 in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
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— “Signs of Autism Differ in Brains of Boys, Girls “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, February 21, 2022