White matter connectivity in children with autism spectrum disorders: A tract-based spatial statistics study

BMC Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Billeci, Lucia ^a   Calderoni, Sara ^b   Tosetti, Michela ^b   Catani, Marco ^c   Muratori, Filippo ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arcuate fasciculs; ASD; Language; TBSS; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NERVE FIBER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; TRACT BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84870065050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-12-148     Document Type: Article

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