Functional neuroimaging of high-risk 6-month-old infants predicts a diagnosis of autism at 24 months of age

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 393, 2017, Pages

  Emerson, Robert W ^a   Adams, Chloe ^b   Nishino, Tomoyuki ^b   Hazlett, Heather Cody ^a   Wolff, Jason J ^c   Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie ^d   Constantino, John N ^b   Shen, Mark D ^a   Swanson, Meghan R ^a   Elison, Jed T ^c   Kandala, Sridhar ^b   Estes, Annette M ^e   Botteron, Kelly N ^b,f   Collins, Louis ^g   Dager, Stephen R ^e,h   Evans, Alan C ^g   Gerig, Guido ⁱ   Gu, Hongbin ^a   Mckinstry, Robert C ^f   Paterson, Sarah ^j   Schultz, Robert T ^j   Styner, Martin ^a   Schlaggar, Bradley L ^b,f   Pruett, John R ^b   Piven, Joseph ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; CONNECTOME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85020435497     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aag2882     Document Type: Article

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