Reduced GABAA receptors and benzodiazepine binding sites in the posterior cingulate cortex and fusiform gyrus in autism

Brain Research

Volumn 1380, Issue , 2011, Pages 218-228

  Oblak, Adrian L ^a   Gibbs, Terrell T ^a   Blatt, Gene J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; FFG; GABA; Neuropathology; PCC

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE; FLUNITRAZEPAM; MUSCIMOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING AFFINITY; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING SITE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CINGULATE GYRUS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952316385     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.09.021     Document Type: Article

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