Disrupted Functional Brain Networks in Autistic Toddlers

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-49

  Boersma, Maria ^a   Kemner, Chantal ^a,b   de Reus, Marcel A ^a   Collin, Guusje ^a   Snijders, Tineke M ^b   Hofman, Dennis ^b   Buitelaar, Jan K ^c   Stam, Cornelis J ^d   Van Den Heuvel, Martijn P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

autism; EEG; functional connectivity; graph theory; network; toddler

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884534120     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2012.0127     Document Type: Article

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