Early brain overgrowth in autism associated with an increase in cortical surface area before age 2 years

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 467-476

  Hazlett, Heather Cody ^a   Poe, Michele D ^b   Gerig, Guido ^d   Styner, Martin ^a,c   Chappell, Chad ^a   Smith, Rachel Gimpel ^a   Vachet, Clement ^a   Piven, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Brooks Computer Science Building   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN OVERGROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79955601366     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.39     Document Type: Article

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