Microstructural abnormalities of short-distance white matter tracts in autism spectrum disorder

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1378-1382

  Shukla, Dinesh K ^a   Keehn, Brandon ^a,b   Smylie, Daren M ^a   Müller, Ralph Axel ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Brain connectivity; Diffusion tensor imaging; Local connectivity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; PARIETAL LOBE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79954423671     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.022     Document Type: Article

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