Response monitoring, repetitive behaviour and anterior cingulate abnormalities in autism spectrum disorders (ASD)

Brain

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2464-2478

  Thakkar, Katharine N ^a   Polli, Frida E ^a,b   Joseph, Robert M ^c   Tuch, David S ^a,d   Hadjikhani, Nouchine ^a,d   Barton, Jason J S ^e   Manoach, Dara S ^a,d,f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f Harvard Medical School ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Autism; Diffusion tensor imaging; Functional MRI; Response monitoring

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; CITALOPRAM; CLONAZEPAM; FLUOXETINE; LITHIUM; METHYLPHENIDATE; SERTRALINE;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 50849139491     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awn099     Document Type: Article

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