Altered structure-function relations of semantic processing in youths with high-functioning autism: A combined diffusion and functional MRI study

Autism Research

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 561-570

  Lo, Yu Chun ^a   Chou, Tai Li ^b   Fan, Li Ying ^b   Gau, Susan Shur Fen ^a,b,c   Chiu, Yen Nan ^c   Tseng, Wen Yih Isaac ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autism; Diffusion spectrum imaging; Dual stream model; Functional MRI; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERALIZED FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT DORSAL REGION; LEFT VENTRAL REGION; MALE; MICROSTRUCTURAL INTEGRITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; YOUNG ADULT;

AUTISM; DIFFUSION SPECTRUM IMAGING; DUAL STREAM MODEL; FUNCTIONAL MRI; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84890805767     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.1315     Document Type: Article

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