Imaging derived cortical thickness reduction in high-functioning autism: Key regions and temporal slope

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 391-400

  Scheel, Christian ^a   Rotarska Jagiela, Anna ^a   Schilbach, Leonhard ^a,b   Lehnhardt, Fritz G ^a   Krug, Barbara ^a   Vogeley, Kai ^a,c   Tepest, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asperger syndrome; Cortical thickness; High functioning autism (HFA); MRI; Posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS); Temporoparietal junction (TPJ)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS; FEMALE; GENDER; HANDEDNESS; HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISM; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGING; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051789978     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.040     Document Type: Article

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