Brain perfusion SPECT and EEG findings in children with autism spectrum disorders and medically intractable epilepsy

Brain and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 776-782

  Sasaki, Masayuki ^a   Nakagawa, Eiji ^a   Sugai, Kenji ^a   Shimizu, Yuko ^a   Hattori, Ayako ^a   Nonoda, Yutaka ^a   Sato, Noriko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Epilepsy; EZIS; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN PERFUSION; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERFUSION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIKE WAVE; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTEINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 77956232415     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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