Response to "letter to the editor: The overlap between Alexithymia and Asperger's syndrome", Fitzgerald and Bellgrove, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(4) [2]

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1143-1145

  Hill, Elisabeth L ^a   Berthoz, Sylvie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT MUTUALISTE MONTSOURIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEXITHYMIA; ASPERGER SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ASPERGER SYNDROME; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE;

EID: 33845898808     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-006-0287-7     Document Type: Letter

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