Neurobiology of sensory overresponsivity in youth with autism spectrum disorders

JAMA Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 778-786

  Green, Shulamite A ^a   Hernandez, Leanna ^a   Tottenham, Nim ^b   Krasileva, Kate ^a   Bookheimer, Susan Y ^a   Dapretto, Mirella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTISM; AUTISM DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW REVISED; AUTISM DIAGNOSTIC OBSERVATION SCHEDULE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORY OVER RESPONSIVITY SCALES SCORE; SENSORY OVERRESPONSIVITY; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TACTILE STIMULATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEARING; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; TOUCH;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALA; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84939864205     PISSN: 2168622X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.0737     Document Type: Article

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