Autism and sensory processing disorders: Shared white matter disruption in sensory pathways but divergent connectivity in social-emotional pathways

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Chang, Yi Shin ^a   Owen, Julia P ^a   Desai, Shivani S ^a   Hill, Susanna S ^a   Arnett, Anne B ^a   Harris, Julia ^a   Marco, Elysa J ^a   Mukherjee, Pratik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER; AUTISM; CHILD; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DSM-5; EMOTION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CONNECTOME; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84905014871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103038     Document Type: Article

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