Cerebellar gray matter and lobular volumes correlate with core autism symptoms

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 7, Issue , 2015, Pages 631-639

  D'Mello, Anila M ^a   Crocetti, Deana ^b   Mostofsky, Stewart H ^b,c   Stoodley, Catherine J ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

ADI; ADOS; Autism spectrum disorder; Cerebellum; SUIT; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTISM DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW REVISED; AUTISM DIAGNOSTIC OBSERVATION SCHEDULE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIRST CERVICAL VERTEBRA; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VOLUMETRY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; CEREBELLUM; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84924240694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.02.007     Document Type: Article

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