White matter structure in autism: Preliminary evidence from diffusion tensor imaging

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 323-326

  Barnea Goraly, Naama ^a   Kwon, Hower ^a   Menon, Vinod ^a   Eliez, Stephan ^b   Lotspeich, Linda ^a   Reiss, Allan L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autism; Brain; DTI; MRI; Social cognition; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GENDER; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 1642441704     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2003.10.022     Document Type: Article

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