Early functional brain development in autism and the promise of sleep fMRI

Brain Research

Volumn 1380, Issue , 2011, Pages 162-174

  Pierce, Karen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Brain development; Brain imaging; Language; Sleep fmri; Superior temporal gyrus

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN GROWTH; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFANCY; LANGUAGE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SPEECH; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SLEEP; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79952314339     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.09.028     Document Type: Review

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