Epilepsy and autism

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Buckley, Ashura W ^a   Holmes, Gregory L ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMORBIDITY; CONNECTOME; DE LANGE SYNDROME; DOWN SYNDROME; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; PHELAN-MCDERMID SYNDROME; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; RETT SYNDROME; SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME; SMITH MAGENIS SYNDROME; SOTOS SYNDROME; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; WILSON DISEASE; AGE; ANIMAL; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; BRAIN; CHILD; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84962409003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a022749     Document Type: Article

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