Brain anatomy and sensorimotor gating in Asperger's syndrome

Brain

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1594-1606

  McAlonan, Grainne M ^a,d   Daly, Eileen ^a   Kumari, Veena ^a   Critchley, Hugo D ^a,b   Van Amelsvoort, Therese ^a   Suckling, John ^a   Simmons, Andrew ^a   Sigmundsson, Thordur ^a   Greenwood, Kathyrn ^a   Russell, Ailsa ^a   Schmitz, Nicole ^a   Happe, Francesca ^a   Howlin, Patricia ^c   Murphy, Declan G M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Asperger's syndrome; Autism; Brain; MRI; Prepulse inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; OBSESSION; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPEECH; STARTLE REFLEX; STEREOTYPY; THINKING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0036310203     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awf150     Document Type: Article

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