Abnormalities in fronto-striatal connectivity within language networks relate to differences in grey-matter heterogeneity in Asperger syndrome

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 716-726

  Radulescu, Eugenia ^a,b   Minati, Ludovico ^a,c   Ganeshan, Balaji ^a,d   Harrison, Neil A ^a,b,e   Gray, Marcus A ^b,f   Beacher, Felix D C C ^a   Chatwin, Chris ^b   Young, Rupert C D ^b   Critchley, Hugo D ^a,b,e  

^a BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e SUSSEX PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); Caudate; Dynamic causal modelling (DCM); Psycho physiological interaction (PPI); Texture analysis (TA)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INSULA; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 84879085072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2013.05.010     Document Type: Article

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