Children and Adolescents with Autism Exhibit Reduced MEG Steady-State Gamma Responses

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 192-197

  Wilson, Tony W ^a   Rojas, Donald C ^a   Reite, Martin L ^a   Teale, Peter D ^a   Rogers, Sally J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ASD; auditory; autism; connectivity; gamma; MEG

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTISM; CHILD; CLICK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STEADY STATE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 34447250748     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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