Anterior Prefrontal Hemodynamic Connectivity in Conscious 3- to 7-Year-Old Children with Typical Development and Autism Spectrum Disorder

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Kikuchi, Mitsuru ^a,b   Yoshimura, Yuko ^a,b   Shitamichi, Kiyomi ^a   Ueno, Sanae ^a   Hiraishi, Hirotoshi ^a   Munesue, Toshio ^a,b   Hirosawa, Tetsu ^a   Ono, Yasuki ^a   Tsubokawa, Tsunehisa ^a   Inoue, Yoshihiro ^d   Oi, Manabu ^a,b   Niida, Yo ^a   Remijn, Gerard B ^c   Takahashi, Tsutomu ^e   Suzuki, Michio ^e   Higashida, Haruhiro ^a,b   Minabe, Yoshio ^a,b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; ONSET AGE; POWER ANALYSIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84873906827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056087     Document Type: Article

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