Longitudinal changes in cortical thickness in autism and typical development

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1799-1812

  Zielinski, Brandon A ^a,b   Prigge, Molly B D ^a   Nielsen, Jared A ^a   Froehlich, Alyson L ^c   Abildskov, Tracy J ^d   Anderson, Jeffrey S ^a   Fletcher, P Thomas ^c,e   Zygmunt, Kristen M ^c   Travers, Brittany G ^f   Lange, Nicholas ^g,h   Alexander, Andrew L ^f,i   Bigler, Erin D ^d   Lainhart, Janet E ^f,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Primary Children's Medical Centre   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Utah   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

autism; brain development; developmental neuroimaging; human brain mapping; MRI

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CUNEUS; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEFT ROSTRAL MIDDLE FRONTAL CORTEX; LINGUAL GYRUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; PERICALCARINE CORTEX; PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CAUDAL MIDDLE FRONTAL CORTEX; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL GYRUS; YOUNG ADULT;

AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING; MRI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901421783     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu083     Document Type: Article

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