Abnormalities in gamma-band responses to language stimuli in first-degree relatives of children with autism spectrum disorder: An MEG study

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  McFadden, Kristina L ^a   Hepburn, Susan ^a,b   Winterrowd, Erin ^c   Schmidt, Gwenda L ^d   Rojas, Donald C ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^d HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUTISM; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GAMMA RHYTHM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PHENOTYPE; PHONETICS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FIRST DEGREE RELATIVE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PARENT; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN WAVES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PARENTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870060877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-12-213     Document Type: Article

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