TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lehnhardt, Fritz-Georg
AU  - Falter, Christine Michaela
AU  - Gawronski, Astrid
AU  - Pfeiffer, Kathleen
AU  - Tepest, Ralf
AU  - Franklin, Jeremy
AU  - Vogeley, Kai
TI  - Sex-Related Cognitive Profile in Autism Spectrum Disorders Diagnosed Late in Life: Implications for the Female Autistic Phenotype
JO  - Journal of autism and developmental disorders
VL  - 46
IS  - 1
SN  - 1573-3432
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
M1  - FZJ-2016-04897
SP  - 139 - 154
PY  - 2016
AB  - 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.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000367883500014
C6  - pmid:26319250
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s10803-015-2558-7
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/819188
ER  -