Cortical thickness change in autism during early childhood

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2616-2629

  Smith, Elizabeth ^a   Thurm, Audrey ^a   Greenstein, Deanna ^a   Farmer, Cristan ^a   Swedo, Susan ^a   Giedd, Jay ^b   Raznahan, Armin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

autism spectrum disorder; cortical thickness; expressive language; MRI; surface based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPULSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOCIAL COGNITION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84974667659     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23195     Document Type: Article

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