Relationship between surface-based brain morphometric measures and intelligence in autism spectrum disorders: Influence of history of language delay

Autism Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 556-566

  Balardin, Joana Bisol ^a,b   Sato, João Ricardo ^b   Vieira, Gilson ^a   Feng, Yeu ^c   Daly, E M ^c,e   Murphy, Clodagh M ^c,e   Bailey, Anthony J ^d   Carrington, Sarah ^d   Jezzard, Peter ^d   Stewart, Rose ^d   Baron Cohen, Simon ^d   Bullmore, Edward T ^d   Chakrabarti, Bhismadev ^d   Henty, Julian ^d   Lai, Meng Chuan ^d   Lombardo, Michael V ^d   Pasco, Greg ^d   Ruigrok, Amber N V ^d   Sadek, Susan A ^d   Suckling, John ^d   Wheelwright, Sally J ^d   Bolton, Patrick F ^e   Catani, Marco ^e   Craig, Michael ^e   Deoni, Sean C L ^e   Ecker, Christine ^c,e   Happé, Francesca ^e   Johnston, Patrick ^e   Jones, Derek ^e   Madden, Anya ^e   Mullins, Diane ^e   Murphy, Declan G M ^c,e   Spain, Debbie ^e   Williams, Steven C ^e   Wilson, C Ellie ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IoP ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e Clinical Neuroscience Division   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asperger syndrome; Autism; Brain anatomy; Intelligence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DORSAL FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE DELAY; LATERAL ORBITAL FRONTAL CORTEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; PARIETOOCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER; FEMALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945459390     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.1470     Document Type: Article

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