Autism spectrum disorder as early neurodevelopmental disorder: Evidence from the brain imaging abnormalities in 2-3 years old toddlers

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1633-1640

  Xiao, Zhou ^a   Qiu, Ting ^a   Ke, Xiaoyan ^a   Xiao, Xiang ^a   Xiao, Ting ^a   Liang, Fengjing ^a   Zou, Bing ^a   Huang, Haiqing ^b   Fang, Hui ^a   Chu, Kangkang ^a   Zhang, Jiuping ^a   Liu, Yijun ^b  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Diffusion tensor imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Toddler; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84903702288     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-014-2033-x     Document Type: Article

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