Abnormal white matter integrity in young children with autism

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 534-543

  Weinstein, Maya ^a,b   Ben Sira, Liat ^a   Levy, Yonata ^b   Zachor, Ditza A ^c,d   Itzhak, Esti Ben ^d,e   Artzi, Moran ^a,c   Tarrasch, Ricardo ^c   Eksteine, Perla M ^a   Hendler, Talma ^a,c   Bashat, Dafna Ben ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autism; Cingulum; Corpus callosum; DTI; Superior longitudinal fasciculus; TBSS; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CINGULATE SULCUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 79952420883     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21042     Document Type: Article

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