A Retrospective Fetal Ultrasound Study of Brain Size in Autism

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1048-1055

  Hobbs, Kyle ^a   Kennedy, Anne ^a   DuBray, Molly ^a   Bigler, Erin D ^a,b,c   Petersen, P Brent ^d   McMahon, William ^a,b   Lainhart, Janet E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Carmen B Pingree School for Children with Autism   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; biparietal diameter; brain growth; fetal; head circumference; head width; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BREECH PRESENTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CEPHALOMETRY; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL WEIGHT; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 35248880674     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.03.020     Document Type: Article

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