Magnetic resonance imaging and head circumference study of brain size in autism: Birth through age 2 years

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1366-1376

  Hazlett, Heather Cody ^a   Poe, Michele ^a   Gerig, Guido ^a   Smith, Rachel Gimpel ^a   Provenzale, James ^b   Ross, Allison ^b   Gilmore, John ^a   Piven, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 28544442720     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.62.12.1366     Document Type: Article

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