Brain growth across the life span in autism: Age-specific changes in anatomical pathology

Brain Research

Volumn 1380, Issue , 2011, Pages 138-145

  Courchesne, Eric ^a   Campbell, Kathleen ^a   Solso, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Degeneration; Development; Magnetic resonance imaging; Overgrowth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TODDLER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ATROPHY; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79952313504     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.09.101     Document Type: Article

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