No significant brain volume decreases or increases in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder and above average intelligence: A voxel-based morphometric study

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 67-74

  Riedel, Andreas ^a   Maier, Simon ^a,b   Ulbrich, Melanie ^a   Biscaldi, Monica ^a   Ebert, Dieter ^a   Fangmeier, Thomas ^a   Perlov, Evgeniy ^a   Tebartz van Elst, Ludger ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD); High IQ; Voxel based morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ABOVE AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; AUTISM; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; INTELLIGENCE TEST; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84903821200     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2014.05.013     Document Type: Article

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