Changes in grey matter development in autism spectrum disorder

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 218, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 929-942

  Greimel, Ellen ^a,b,c   Nehrkorn, Barbara ^a,b   Schulte Rüther, Martin ^a,b   Fink, Gereon R ^b,d   Nickl Jockschat, Thomas ^e,f   Herpertz Dahlmann, Beate ^a,f   Konrad, Kerstin ^a,f   Eickhoff, Simon B ^b,e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f JARA TRANSLATIONAL BRAIN MEDICINE   (Germany)

^g HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Brain development; Grey matter; MRI; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MIDDLE CINGULATE CORTEX; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; ORGAN SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84879799117     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0439-9     Document Type: Article

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