Inter-regional brain communication and its disturbance in autism

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEBRUARY 2011, 2011, Pages

  Schipul, Sarah E ^a   Keller, Timothy A ^a   Just, Marcel Adam ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Brain connectivity; DTI; fMRI

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 82655175804     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00010     Document Type: Review

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