Impaired structural connectivity of socio-emotional circuits in autism spectrum disorders: A diffusion tensor imaging study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Ameis, Stephanie H ^a   Fan, Jin ^b,c   Rockel, Conrad ^a   Voineskos, Aristotle N ^d   Lobaugh, Nancy J ^e   Soorya, Latha ^c   Wang, A Ting ^c   Hollander, Eric ^f   Anagnostou, Evdokia ^c,g  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g University of Toronto   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; DEMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 81755184074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028044     Document Type: Article

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