Autism: Functional brain mapping of exceptional calendar capacity

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 187, Issue JULY, 2005, Pages 83-86

  Boddaert, Nathalie ^a,b   Barthélémy, Catherine ^c   Poline, Jean Baptiste ^a   Samson, Yves ^b   Brunelle, Francis ^a,b   Zilbovicius, Mônica ^a,d  

^a DIF   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^c CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

^d SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 22344433536     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.187.1.83     Document Type: Article

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