Smaller insula and inferior frontal volumes in young adults with pervasive developmental disorders

NeuroImage

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1357-1363

  Kosaka, Hirotaka ^a   Omori, Masao ^b   Munesue, Toshio ^c   Ishitobi, Makoto ^a   Matsumura, Yukiko ^a   Takahashi, Tetsuya ^a   Narita, Kousuke ^a,d   Murata, Tetsuhito ^a   Saito, Daisuke N ^a   Uchiyama, Hitoshi ^e   Morita, Tomoyo ^f   Kikuchi, Mitsuru ^c   Mizukami, Kimiko ^g   Okazawa, Hidehiko ^a   Sadato, Norihiro ^a,f,h   Wada, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^g JIN AI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autistic spectrum disorders (ASD); Inferior frontal gyrus (IFG); Insula; Mirror neuron system (MNS); Pervasive developmental disorders (PDD); Voxel based morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INSULA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUMETRY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; ORGAN SIZE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950594822     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.085     Document Type: Article

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