Abnormal autonomic and associated brain activities during rest in autism spectrum disorder

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 153-171

  Eilam Stock, Tehila ^a,b,c   Xu, Pengfei ^d   Cao, Miao ^d   Gu, Xiaosi ^e,f   Van Dam, Nicholas T ^a,c   Anagnostou, Evdokia ^c   Kolevzon, Alexander ^c   Soorya, Latha ^c   Park, Yunsoo ^c   Siller, Michael ^g   He, Yong ^d   Hof, Patrick R ^c   Fan, Jin ^a,b,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

autism; autonomic nervous system; emotion; resting state; skin conductance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; YOUNG ADULT;

AUTISM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMOTION; RESTING STATE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892722626     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt294     Document Type: Article

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