Frontal anatomy and reaction time in Autism

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 412, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-17

  Schmitz, Nicole ^a,b   Daly, Eileen ^a,b   Murphy, Declan ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autistic Spectrum Disorder; Frontal lobe volume; Reaction time; White matter integrity; Whole brain parenchymal volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS;

EID: 33845963128     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.07.077     Document Type: Article

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