Childhood Autism and Auditory System Abnormalities

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 309-314

  Hitoglou, Magdalini ^a   Ververi, Athina ^a   Antoniadis, Alexandros ^a   Zafeiriou, Dimitrios I ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; PROTEIN HOXA1; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CHROMOSOME 7; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DICHOTIC LISTENING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMBRYOPATHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOACUSIS; INFANTILE AUTISM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MYELINATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PLANNING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; COMPLICATION; HEARING; HEARING DISORDERS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS;

EID: 77950602402     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2009.10.009     Document Type: Review

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