Atypical excitation-inhibition balance in autism captured by the gamma response to contextual modulation

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 65-72

  Snijders, Tineke M ^a,b,d,e   Milivojevic, Branka ^a,b,d   Kemner, Chantal ^a,b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asperger's disorder; EEG; GABA; Gamma oscillations; Surround suppression; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXCITATION; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; INHIBITION KINETICS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; ORIENTATION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; STIMULUS; VISION;

EID: 84881402043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2013.06.015     Document Type: Article

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