Motor abnormalities as a putative endophenotype for autism spectrum disorders

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Esposito, Gianluca ^a   Paşca, Sergiu P ^b  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Early assessment; Early screening; Endophenotype; Motor abnormalities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; ENDOPHENOTYPE; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING DISORDER; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 84898867282     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2013.00043     Document Type: Article

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