Altered white matter integrity and development in children with autism: A combined voxel-based morphometry and diffusion imaging study

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 189-195

  Mengotti, Paola ^a,b   D'Agostini, Serena ^c   Terlevic, Robert ^f   De Colle, Cristina ^c   Biasizzo, Elsa ^c   Londero, Danielle ^d   Ferro, Adele ^e   Rambaldelli, Gianluca ^e   Balestrieri, Matteo ^f   Zanini, Sergio ^d   Fabbro, Franco ^d   Molteni, Massimo ^d   Brambilla, Paolo ^d,e  

^a Associazione La Nostra Famiglia   (Italy)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age; Connectivity; Frontal cortex; Gray matter; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECENTRAL SULCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 79451472563     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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