The purpose of this commentary is to
- provide historical context about how females came to be under-represented in all research, not just in the field of autism
- learn from other areas of health and medicine about the potentially dire consequences of not studying both sexes
- draw attention to the need to recruit sex-balanced cohorts in autism research, particularly in neuroimaging studies
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Read the full article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.2971
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