Atypical age-dependent effects of autism on white matter microstructure in children of 2-7 years

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 819-832

  Ouyang, Minhui ^a,b,c   Cheng, Hua ^d   Mishra, Virendra ^b   Gong, Gaolang ^e   Mosconi, Matthew W ^b   Sweeney, John ^b   Peng, Yun ^d   Huang, Hao ^a,b,f  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical; Autism; Children; Development; Microstructure; White matter

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN MATURATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84955196640     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23073     Document Type: Article

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