Aberrant striatal functional connectivity in children with autism

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 847-856

  Di Martino, Adriana ^a   Kelly, Clare ^a   Grzadzinski, Rebecca ^a   Zuo, Xi Nian ^a,e   Mennes, Maarten ^a   Mairena, Maria Angeles ^b   Lord, Catherine ^c   Castellanos, F Xavier ^a,d   Milham, Michael P ^a,d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CHILD STUDY CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Autism; brainstem; development; functional connectivity; insula; striatum

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 79954947943     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.10.029     Document Type: Article

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