Brain anatomy and its relationship to behavior in adults with autism spectrum disorder: A multicenter magnetic resonance imaging study

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 195-209

  Ecker, Christine ^a   Suckling, John ^b   Deoni, Sean C ^a   Lombardo, Michael V ^b,c   Bullmore, Ed T ^b   Baron Cohen, Simon ^b,c   Catani, Marco ^a   Jezzard, Peter ^d   Barnes, Anna ^b   Bailey, Anthony J ^e   Williams, Steven C ^a   Murphy, Declan G M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY SEVERITY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863393507     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.1251     Document Type: Article

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