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SUBMITTER: Lombardo MV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7473837 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lombardo Michael V MV Auyeung Bonnie B Pramparo Tiziano T Quartier Angélique A Courraud Jérémie J Holt Rosemary J RJ Waldman Jack J Ruigrok Amber N V ANV Mooney Natasha N Bethlehem Richard A I RAI Lai Meng-Chuan MC Kundu Prantik P Bullmore Edward T ET Mandel Jean-Louis JL Piton Amélie A Baron-Cohen Simon S
Molecular psychiatry 20180813 9
Early-onset neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., autism) affect males more frequently than females. Androgens may play a role in this male-bias by sex-differentially impacting early prenatal brain development, particularly neural circuits that later develop specialized roles in social cognition. Here, we find that increasing prenatal testosterone in humans is associated with later reduction of functional connectivity between social brain default mode (DMN) subsystems in adolescent males, but has ...[more]