Fetal androgen exposure and pragmatic language ability of girls in middle childhood: Implications for the extreme male-brain theory of autism

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1259-1264

  Whitehouse, Andrew J O ^a,b   Maybery, Murray T ^b   Hart, Roger ^c   Mattes, Eugen ^a   Newnham, John P ^c   Sloboda, Deborah M ^d   Stanley, Fiona J ^a   Hickey, Martha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Androgen; Autism; Extreme male brain theory; Prenatal; Sex differences; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 77955576376     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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