Decreased frontal gyrification correlates with altered connectivity in children with autism

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Schaer, Marie ^a,b   Ottet, Marie Christine ^b   Scariati, Elisa ^b   Dukes, Daniel ^c,d   Franchini, Martina ^b   Eliez, Stephan ^b   Glaser, Bronwyn ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Cerebral morphometry; Cortical folding; Neuroimaging; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MIRROR NEURON; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TRACTOGRAPHY; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84888121322     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00750     Document Type: Article

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