Neurogenesis in the amygdala: A new etiologic hypothesis of autism?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 352-357

  Mercadante, Marcos Tomanik ^a   Cysneiros, Roberta Monterazzo ^b   Schwartzman, José Salomão ^c   Arida, Ricardo Mario ^a   Cavalheiro, Esper Abrão ^a   Scorza, Fulvio Alexandre ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Centro Universitario Sao Camilo   (Brazil)

^c MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 37349029677     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.05.018     Document Type: Article

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