Convergent Findings of Altered Functional and Structural Brain Connectivity in Individuals with High Functioning Autism: A Multimodal MRI Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Mueller, Sophia ^a   Keeser, Daniel ^a   Samson, Andrea C ^b   Kirsch, Valerie ^c   Blautzik, Janusch ^a   Grothe, Michel ^d   Erat, Okan ^a   Hegenloh, Michael ^a,c   Coates, Ute ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Hennig Fast, Kristina ^a   Meindl, Thomas ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; AUTISM; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879173747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067329     Document Type: Article

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