Differences in white matter reflect atypical developmental trajectory in autism: A Tract-based Spatial Statistics study

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-56

  Bakhtiari, Reyhaneh ^a,b,c   Zürcher, Nicole R ^c   Rogier, Ophélie ^c   Russo, Britt ^c   Hippolyte, Loyse ^c   Granziera, Cristina ^c   Araabi, Babak Nadjar ^a,b   Ahmadabadi, Majid Nili ^a,b   Hadjikhani, Nouchine ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES IPM   (Iran)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Brain connectivity; Brain development; Brain maturation; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84871965093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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