Structural neural phenotype of autism: Preliminary evidence from a diffusion tensor imaging study using tract-based spatial statistics

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1607-1613

  Jou, Roger J ^a,b   Mateljevic, N ^a,c   Kaiser, M D ^a   Sugrue, D R ^a   Volkmar, F R ^a   Pelphrey, K A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHENOTYPE; PILOT PROJECTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80054015970     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2558     Document Type: Article

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