Neuroanatomy of individual differences in language in adult males with autism

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3613-3628

  Lai, Meng Chuan ^a,b   Lombardo, Michael V ^a,c   Ecker, Christine ^d   Chakrabarti, Bhismadev ^a,e   Suckling, John ^f,h   Bullmore, Edward T ^f,g,h   Happé, Francesca ⁱ   Murphy, Declan G M ^d   Baron Cohen, Simon ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Individual differences; Language; Neuroanatomy; Specifiers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGULAR GYRUS; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; INSULA; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DELAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MIDDLE ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE POSTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; ORBITAL INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; PONS; POSTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL GYRUS; VENTRAL BASAL GANGLIA; WERNICKE AREA; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER; INDIVIDUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; BRAIN; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948699984     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu211     Document Type: Article

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