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. 2025 Aug 4:16:1612219.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1612219. eCollection 2025.

Rethinking body representations in autism across cultures

Joanna Mourad  1   2   3   4 , Bernadette Grosjean  5 , Nader Perroud  6 , Katleen Bogaerts  1   7 , Martin Desseilles  3   4 , Bruno Bonnechère  1   2   8
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Rethinking body representations in autism across cultures

Joanna Mourad et al. Front Psychiatry. .
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Keywords: autism; body image; body representations; body schema; culture.

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Bibliometric Analysis of studies on BRs in ASD. (A) Country collaboration map, the size of the bubble are proportional to the number of studies, the width of the connection is proportional to the number of collaborations, the color represents the different clusters with the most collaborations. (B) Annual scientific production; (C) Most productive countries, including single (green) and multiple country collaborations (red).
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