Abstract
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會議號： 2515 923 5350
密碼： muP93iT93Ku
Autism is a human neurodevelopmental condition and an example of neurodivergence that has been historically identified mostly in children assigned male at birth. This results in partial understanding of autism to date and creates inequity for autistic individuals assigned female at birth. In the past decade, autism has been increasingly recognized in girls, women, and gender-diverse people especially in some high-income countries. This trend contributes to an updated knowledge base of how the understanding spanning from classical to nuanced phenotypes of autism contributes to the epistemic iteration of the diagnostic concept, and offers new opportunities for more fulsome measurement of the nuanced phenotypes of autism. By integrating these new developments, I will offer reflections on knowledge gaps, clinical implications, and research directions to improve the identification and wellbeing of autistic people across sexes and genders.
會議號： 2515 923 5350
密碼： muP93iT93Ku
Autism is a human neurodevelopmental condition and an example of neurodivergence that has been historically identified mostly in children assigned male at birth. This results in partial understanding of autism to date and creates inequity for autistic individuals assigned female at birth. In the past decade, autism has been increasingly recognized in girls, women, and gender-diverse people especially in some high-income countries. This trend contributes to an updated knowledge base of how the understanding spanning from classical to nuanced phenotypes of autism contributes to the epistemic iteration of the diagnostic concept, and offers new opportunities for more fulsome measurement of the nuanced phenotypes of autism. By integrating these new developments, I will offer reflections on knowledge gaps, clinical implications, and research directions to improve the identification and wellbeing of autistic people across sexes and genders.
Bio
Dr. Meng-Chuan Lai is a staff psychiatrist and senior scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto. He is an Associate Professor and Co-Chair, Advisory Council for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigeneity and Accessibility in Clinical Care in the Department of Psychiatry, and Graduate Faculty at the Institute of Medical Science and Department of Psychology, University of Toronto. He is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, and an Adjunct Associate Professor and Attending Psychiatrist at the National Taiwan University Hospital. He is an INSAR Fellow and an editor of the journals Autism and Molecular Autism. Dr. Lai received his MD from the National Taiwan University and completed psychiatry residency as well as child and adolescent psychiatry subspecialty training at the National Taiwan University Hospital. He holds a PhD in psychiatry and neuroscience from the University of Cambridge, where he also conducted his post-doctoral research in autism neuroscience. Dr. Lai’s research is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Sex and Gender Science Chair, and multiple federal and international research grants alongside extensive national and international collaborations.