Diffusion tensor imaging provides evidence of possible axonal overconnectivity in frontal lobes in autism spectrum disorder toddlers

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 676-684

  Solso, Stephanie ^a   Xu, Ronghui ^b   Proudfoot, James ^b   Hagler, Donald J ^b   Campbell, Kathleen ^a   Venkatraman, Vijay ^b   Carter Barnes, Cynthia ^a   Ahrens Barbeau, Clelia ^a   Pierce, Karen ^a   Dale, Anders ^a   Eyler, Lisa ^a,b,c   Courchesne, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Development; DTI; Frontal tracts; Tract FA; Tract volume

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TODDLER; ANISOTROPY; AXON; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFANT; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ANISOTROPY; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; AXONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN SIZE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84961140087     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.06.029     Document Type: Article

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