Sex differences in brain plasticity: a new hypothesis for sex ratio bias in autism

Several observations support the hypothesis that differences in synaptic and regional cerebral plasticity between the sexes account for the high ratio of males to females in autism. First, males are more susceptible than females to perturbations in genes involved in synaptic plasticity. Second, sex-...

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Autores principales: Mottron, Laurent, Duret, Pauline, Mueller, Sophia, Moore, Robert D, Forgeot d’Arc, Baudouin, Jacquemont, Sebastien, Xiong, Lan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26052415
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-015-0024-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26052415
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-015-0024-1

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