Behrang Mahjani

Sex differences in post-traumatic stress disorder risk among autistic individuals: a population-based matched cohort study

Abstract Background Autistic individuals may experience elevated risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although autism is more commonly diagnosed in males, females in the general population develop PTSD at approximately twice the rate, raising the question of whether au...

Persistent tic disorders are associated with 17q12 duplications

Abstract Tourette Syndrome (TS) and Persistent Tic Disorder (PTD) are childhood-onset neuropsychiatric conditions with high heritability. Due to current sample size limitations, identifying TS/PTD risk genes has been challenging. This study addressed this issue by conducting a me...