Atypical hemispheric asymmetry in the arcuate fasciculus of completely nonverbal children with autism

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 332-337

  Wan, Catherine Y ^a   Marchina, Sarah ^a   Norton, Andrea ^a   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arcuate fasciculus; Asymmetry; Auditory motor mapping training; Autism; Language; Nonverbal

Indexed keywords

ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUTISM; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84860237827     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06446.x     Document Type: Article

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