The Imaginary Part of Coherency in Autism: Differences in Cortical Functional Connectivity in Preschool Children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  García Domínguez, Luis ^a,b   Stieben, Jim ^b   Pérez Velázquez, José Luis ^c   Shanker, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885073300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075941     Document Type: Article

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