The oscillopathic nature of language deficits in autism: From genes to language evolution

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue MAR2016, 2016, Pages

  Benftez Burraco, Antonio ^a   Murphy, Elliot ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Biolinguistics; Evo devo; Language evolution; Neural oscillations; RUNX2

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; NEUROLIGIN 1; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.1;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; BRAIN OSCILLATION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL INTERACTION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOLUTION; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEMORY; NAV1 1 GENE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NLGN1 GENE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; RHYTHMIC SYNCHRONIZATION; SHANK3 GENE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84961707338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00120     Document Type: Article

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