Functional neuroimaging and childhood autism

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-7

  Boddaert, Nathalie ^a,b   Zilbovicius, Monica ^b,c  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

^c CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

Author keywords

Autism; Functional imaging; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CHILD; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; INFANTILE AUTISM; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036943961     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-001-0570-x     Document Type: Review

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