Behavioral and Neuroanatomical Phenotypes in Mouse Models of Autism

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 521-533

  Ellegood, Jacob ^a   Crawley, Jacqueline N ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Behaviour; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Neuroanatomy

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIORAL PHENOTYPE; BRAIN; COMORBIDITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; INBRED STRAIN; NEUROANATOMICAL PHENOTYPE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MOUSE; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84937631801     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: 18787479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-015-0360-z     Document Type: Review

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