Reduced integration and differentiation of the imitation network in autism: A combined functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion-weighted imaging study

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 958-969

  Fishman, Inna ^a   Datko, Michael ^b   Cabrera, Yuliana ^a   Carper, Ruth A ^a   Müller, Ralph Axel ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; IMITATION NETWORK; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL COGNITION; STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN CORTEX; IMITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET;

EID: 84955172852     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.24533     Document Type: Article

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