Functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging classification of autism

Brain

Volumn 134, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3739-3751

  Anderson, Jeffrey S ^a,b,c   Nielsen, Jared A ^a   Froehlich, Alyson L ^a   Dubray, Molly B ^a   Druzgal, T Jason ^d   Cariello, Annahir N ^a   Cooperrider, Jason R ^a   Zielinski, Brandon A ^a   Ravichandran, Caitlin ^e,f   Fletcher, P Thomas ^b,c,g   Alexander, Andrew L ^h   Bigler, Erin D ^b,i   Lange, Nicholas ^e,f   Lainhart, Janet E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The Brain Institute at the University of Utah   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

ⁱ BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

autism spectrum disorders; brain development; functional connectivity MRI; functional MRI; resting state functional MRI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; GUSTATORY CORTEX; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIBLING; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE;

EID: 83755186505     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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