Deviant Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Patterns of Brain Activity to Speech in 2-3-Year-Old Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 589-598

  Redcay, Elizabeth ^a   Courchesne, Eric ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; fMRI; language; laterality; pediatric; sleep

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SLEEP; SPEECH; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGE FACTORS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 50849109462     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.05.020     Document Type: Article

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