Increased topographical variability of task-related activation in perceptive and motor associative regions in adult autistics

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages 444-453

  Poulin Lord, Marie Pier ^a,b   Barbeau, Elise B ^a,b   Soulières, Isabelle ^a,b,c   Monchi, Oury ^a,d   Doyon, Julien ^a   Benali, Habib ^e   Mottron, Laurent ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^e PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Associative areas; Autism; fMRI; Plasticity; Primary areas

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE VISUAL AREA; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; VISION; VISUOMOTOR SUPERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGINATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; VASCULARIZATION; BILATERAL SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CUNEUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR SEMI LUNAR LOBULE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUAL GYRUS; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRECUNEUS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; VISUAL AREA V3; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ANO 2 PROTEIN, RAT; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896765853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.02.008     Document Type: Article

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