A Meta-Analysis of the Corpus Callosum in Autism

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 935-941

  Frazier, Thomas W ^a   Hardan, Antonio Y ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; corpus callosum; magnetic resonance imaging; meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEDLINE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOTONEURON; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCINFO; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 70350571202     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.07.022     Document Type: Article

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