When is the brain enlarged in autism? A meta-analysis of all brain size reports.

By Elizabeth Redcay, Eric Courchesne. Biological Psychiatry, 2005

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Accelerated maturation of white matter in young children with autism: A high b value DWI study (2007, background): “, 2006) were conducted with adolescents and adults, in whom brain growth is supposedly arrested (Penn, 2006; Redcay and Courchesne, 2005).”
Mapping early brain development in autism. (2007, unknown): “Despite the lack of signiﬁcant brain weight difference, about 5% of adolescent and adult postmortem cases of autism do have exceptionally heavy brain weights (Courchesne et al., 1999; Redcay and Courchesne, 2005).”
Neuron number and size in prefrontal cortex of children with autism. (2011, background): “CLINICAL SIGNS OF AUTISM ARE often preceded by or emerge concurrently with a period of abnormal brain and head overgrowth.(1-12) This early neurobiological signal of abnormal development has been reported to begin at 9 to 18 months of age.”
Early behavioral intervention, brain plasticity, and the prevention of autism spectrum disorder (2008, methodology): “An atypical trajectory of head growth in the first 2 years of life appears to be a phenotypic risk index in ASD (Courchesne & Pierce, 2005; Redcay & Courchesne, 2005).”
The Cerebellum, Sensitive Periods, and Autism (2014, background): “In volumetric MRI measurements, ASD brains grow faster on average than neurotypical brains in the first two postnatal years (Redcay and Courchesne, 2005).”