An MRI study of autism: The cerebellum revisited

Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 546-551

  Piven, Joseph ^a,b   Saliba, Khalil ^a   Bailey, James ^a   Arndt, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0030812928     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.49.2.546     Document Type: Article

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