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ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2019

Neural self-representation in autistic women and association with 'compensatory camouflaging'.

Meng-Chuan Lai, Michael V Lombardo, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Amber Nv Ruigrok, Edward T Bullmore, John Suckling, Bonnie Auyeung, Francesca Happé, Peter Szatmari, Simon Baron-Cohen and 1 more

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Article in Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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61 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. A comparison of methods for measuring camouflaging in autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023
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  4. A Systematic Review of Passing as Non-autistic in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2021
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  9. Camouflaging and autism: Conceptualisation and methodological issues.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026
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  16. Self-reported masking in sexual minority and heterosexual autistic adults.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Meng-Chuan Lai1 University of Toronto, Canada.
Michael V Lombardo2 University of Cambridge, UK.
Bhismadev Chakrabarti2 University of Cambridge, UK.
Amber Nv Ruigrok2 University of Cambridge, UK.
Edward T Bullmore2 University of Cambridge, UK.
John Suckling2 University of Cambridge, UK.
Bonnie Auyeung2 University of Cambridge, UK.
Francesca Happé9 King's College London, UK.
Peter Szatmari1 University of Toronto, Canada.
Simon Baron-Cohen2 University of Cambridge, UK.
MRC AIMS Consortium

Funding

Medical Research Council G0500870Medical Research Council G0600977Wellcome Trust 091774
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prior work has revealed sex/gender-dependent autistic characteristics across behavioural and neural/biological domains. It remains unclear whether and how neural sex/gender differences are related to behavioural sex/gender differences in autism. Here, we examined whether atypical neural responses during mentalizing and self-representation are sex/gender-dependent in autistic adults and explored whether 'camouflaging' (acting as if behaviourally neurotypical) is associated with sex/gender-dependent neural responses. In total,

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Self ConceptSocial BehaviorAdolescentAdultAutistic DisorderBrainCase-Control StudiesFemaleFunctional NeuroimagingHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMentalizationMiddle AgedSex FactorsYoung Adultadultautismcamouflagingcompensationfunctional magnetic resonance imaginggenderheterogeneitymentalizingselfsex

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PMID30354191
PMCPMC6589917

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