Meng‐Chuan Lai

Research interests

Publications

• Sex and gender in neurodevelopmental conditions

  Nature Reviews Neurology · 2023 · 10.1038/s41582-023-00774-6

• The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2024: phenotypes around the world

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad1005

• Is social camouflaging associated with anxiety and depression in autistic adults?

  Molecular Autism · 2021 · 10.1186/s13229-021-00421-1

• Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 10.1038/s41467-020-17794-1

• Evidence-based support for autistic people across the lifespan: maximising potential, minimising barriers, and optimising the person–environment fit

  The Lancet Neurology · 2020 · 10.1016/s1474-4422(20)30034-x

• Coping, fostering resilience, and driving care innovation for autistic people and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

  Molecular Autism · 2020 · 10.1186/s13229-020-00365-y

• Gender differences in self-reported camouflaging in autistic and non-autistic adults

  Autism · 2019 · 10.1177/1362361319864804

• Prevalence of co-occurring mental health diagnoses in the autism population: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  The Lancet Psychiatry · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(19)30289-5

• Sex and gender impacts on the behavioural presentation and recognition of autism

  Current Opinion in Psychiatry · 2019 · 10.1097/yco.0000000000000575

• Big data approaches to decomposing heterogeneity across the autism spectrum

  Molecular Psychiatry · 2019 · 10.1038/s41380-018-0321-0

• Altered Connectivity Between Cerebellum, Visual, and Sensory-Motor Networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Results from the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project

  Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.11.010

• Development and Validation of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q)

  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · 2018 · 10.1007/s10803-018-3792-6

• The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): design and methodologies to identify and validate stratification biomarkers for autism spectrum disorders

  Molecular Autism · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-017-0146-8

• “Putting on My Best Normal”: Social Camouflaging in Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions

  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3166-5

• The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): clinical characterisation

  Molecular Autism · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-017-0145-9

• Annual Research Review: The role of the environment in the developmental psychopathology of autism spectrum condition

  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · 2016 · 10.1111/jcpp.12501

• Quantifying and exploring camouflaging in men and women with autism

  Autism · 2016 · 10.1177/1362361316671012

• Identifying the lost generation of adults with autism spectrum conditions

  The Lancet Psychiatry · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(15)00277-1

• The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test: Complete Absence of Typical Sex Difference in ~400 Men and Women with Autism

  PLoS ONE · 2015 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0136521

• Sex/Gender Differences and Autism: Setting the Scene for Future Research

  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2014.10.003

• A meta-analysis of sex differences in human brain structure

  Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.12.004

• Autism

  The Lancet · 2013 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(13)61539-1

• Subgrouping the Autism “Spectrum": Reflections on DSM-5

  PLoS Biology · 2013 · 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001544

• Biological sex affects the neurobiology of autism

  Brain · 2013 · 10.1093/brain/awt216

• Brain Surface Anatomy in Adults With Autism

  JAMA Psychiatry · 2012 · 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.265

• A Behavioral Comparison of Male and Female Adults with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions

  PLoS ONE · 2011 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0020835

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