Oxytocin enhances brain function in children with autism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 52, 2013, Pages 20953-20958

  Gordon, Ilanit ^a,b   Vander Wyk, Brent C ^a   Bennett, Randi H ^a   Cordeaux, Cara ^a   Lucas, Molly V ^a   Eilbott, Jeffrey A ^a   Zagoory Sharon, Orna ^b   Leckman, James F ^a   Feldman, Ruth ^a,b   Pelphrey, Kevin A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVALUATION STUDY; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS;

EID: 84891358315     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312857110     Document Type: Article

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