Precentral gyrus functional connectivity signatures of autism

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Nebel, Mary Beth ^a,b   Eloyan, Ani ^c   Barber, Anita D ^a,b   Mostofsky, Stewart H ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Functional connectivity; Logistic regression; Motor cortex; Multi center studies; Resting state fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 84901329665     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00080     Document Type: Article

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