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A recent study in the American Academy of Children and Adolescent Psychiatry found results about specific brain areas of autistic children and their density. ASD girls were found to have enlargement in intracranial areas. Their gray (cerebral, frontal, and temporal) and white (cerebellar) matter volumes were higher than the control group. Cerebral and frontal gray matter as well as frontal, and cerebellar white matter volumes were higher than the control group. There was a gender difference found in that ASD girls in cerebral white (M= 28.99, SD= 4.75) and cerebral (M= 728.60, SD= 44.86), frontal (M= 272.42 SD= 18.85), and temporal (M= 161.58, SD= 12.93) gray matter. Compared to boys cerebral white (M= 23.42, SD= 5.58), and cerebral (M= 765.15, SD= 58.10), frontal (M=282.98, SD= 23.64), and temporal (M= 164.60, SD= 18.16) gray matter. Mann-Whitney results for girls were .012, .014, .007, and .008 respectively. Boys Mann-Whitney results, also respectively, were >.0005, .014, .016, .054 (in this last instance Randomization test was .017)