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- Title
Sex-Related Cognitive Profile in Autism Spectrum Disorders Diagnosed Late in Life: Implications for the Female Autistic Phenotype.
- Authors
Lehnhardt, Fritz-Georg; Falter, Christine; Gawronski, Astrid; Pfeiffer, Kathleen; Tepest, Ralf; Franklin, Jeremy; Vogeley, Kai
- Abstract
Females with high-functioning ASD are known to camouflage their autistic symptoms better than their male counterparts, making them prone to being under-ascertained and delayed in diagnostic assessment. Thus far the underlying cognitive processes that enable such successful socio-communicative adaptation are not well understood. The current results show sex-related differences in the cognitive profile of ASD individuals, which were diagnosed late in life exclusively. Higher verbal abilities were found in males (n = 69) as opposed to higher processing speed and better executive functions in females with ASD (n = 38). Since both sexes remained unidentified during childhood and adolescence, these results are suggestive for sex-distinctive cognitive strategies as an alternative to typically-developed reciprocal social behavior and social mimicry in high functioning ASD.
- Subjects
GERMANY; DIAGNOSIS of autism; AUTISM; ANALYSIS of covariance; CHI-squared test; COGNITION; COMMUNICATIVE competence; DIAGNOSIS; INTELLECT; MEDICAL errors; SEX distribution; SOCIAL skills; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); TIME; DATA analysis; RETROSPECTIVE studies; EXECUTIVE function; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 2016, Vol 46, Issue 1, p139
- ISSN
0162-3257
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10803-015-2558-7