Functional deficits of the attentional networks in autism

Brain and Behavior

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 647-660

  Fan, Jin ^a,b   Bernardi, Silvia ^b   Van Dam, Nicholas T ^a,b   Anagnostou, Evdokia ^b   Gu, Xiaosi ^b   Martin, Laura ^b   Park, Yunsoo ^b   Liu, Xun ^b   Kolevzon, Alexander ^b   Soorya, Latha ^b   Grodberg, David ^b   Hollander, Eric ^c   Hof, Patrick R ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alerting; Anterior cingulate cortex; Attentional networks; Autism; Executive control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; ATTENTION NETWORK TEST REVISED; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84885794366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.90     Document Type: Article

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