Atypical network connectivity for imitation in autism spectrum disorder

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2931-2939

  Shih, Patricia ^a   Shen, Mark ^a   Öttl, Birgit ^a,b   Keehn, Brandon ^a,c   Gaffrey, Michael S ^a,d   Müller, Ralph Axel ^a,e  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asperger's disorder; Effective connectivity; FcMRI; Intrinsic functional connectivity; Prefrontal cortex; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; IMITATION; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955271705     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.05.035     Document Type: Article

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