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Kaustubh Supekar, PhD, describes recent findings about how girls with autism differ in several brain centers compared with boys with autism.

00:00 - Intro
1:00 – Autism and gender heterogeneity
3:45 – Why are there fewer females with autism?
5:23 – Questions of interest and implications
7:15 – Why we know so little
9:40 – Large-scale science approach
12:40 – Question 1
14:00 – Findings and replication studies
17:25 – Study: Co-occurring conditions
19:10 – Age and gendered socio-ecological effects
19:53 – Interim summary
20:27 – Question 2
23:33 – Findings
25:10 – Study: Correlation of symptom presentation and brain structure
27:04 – Interim summary
29:30 – Question 3
32:00 – Clinical vs functional MRI
36:52 – Findings
37:25 – Major finding: Visual-spatial attention systems
38:15 – Robustness and specificity to autism
40:30 – Study: Functional organization patterns associated with RRB
42:02 – Interim summary
44:40 – Overall summary
46:53 – Limitations and priorities for future research
49:35 – Acknowledgments and Q & A