Increased Brain Size in Autism-What It Will Take to Solve a Mystery

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 313-315

  Vaccarino, Flora M ^a   Smith, Karen Müller ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CADHERIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CONTACTIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TUBERIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN SIZE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHILD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GRAY MATTER; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MACROCEPHALY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 67651039711     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.06.013     Document Type: Note

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