Functional connectivity of the inferior frontal cortex changes with age in children with autism spectrum disorders: A fcMRI study of response inhibition

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1787-1794

  Lee, Philip S ^a   Yerys, Benjamin E ^b,c   Della Rosa, Anne ^b,c   Foss Feig, Jennifer ^d   Barnes, Kelly Anne ^a   James, Joette D ^c   Vanmeter, John ^e   Vaidya, Chandan J ^a,b   Gaillard, William D ^b,e   Kenworthy, Lauren E ^b,c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Children; Cognition; Functional connectivity; Response inhibition

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 67651083674     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn209     Document Type: Article

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