Toddlers later diagnosed with autism exhibit multiple structural abnormalities in temporal corpus callosum fibers

Cortex

Volumn 97, Issue , 2017, Pages 291-305

  Fingher, Noa ^a   Dinstein, Ilan ^a   Ben Shachar, Michal ^b   Haar, Shlomi ^a   Dale, Anders M ^c,d   Eyler, Lisa ^d,e   Pierce, Karen ^c   Courchesne, Eric ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Corpus callosum; DTI; Inter hemispheric connectivity; White matter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; AXON; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; INFANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 85012025587     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.12.024     Document Type: Article

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