Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 09/08/2016 - 16:51
PhD candidate Tim Kung has been published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry with a paper suggesting that there is no link between prenatal androgen exposure and autism.
A possible relationship between androgen and autistic traits is a topic of much research and some contention, and a new paper by the Gender Development Research Centre's Tim Kung suggests that there is no such link. No Relationship Between Prenatal Androgen Exposure and Autistic Traits: Convergent Evidence From Studies of Children With Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and of Amniotic Testosterone Concentrations in Typically-Developing Children has been published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry as of July 2016.
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DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12602