Neuroimaging in autism

Author(s): OLeary, D.

Journal/Book: Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin. 1997; 6: Independence Square West, Curtis Center, Ste 300, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3399. W B Saunders Co. 305.

Abstract: Autism is a complex developmental neuropsychiatric disorder. Postmortem and imaging studies have reported a variety of brain abnormalities, including abnormal cerebral asymmetries and ventricular and brain size, as well as abnormalities in posterior fossa, brain stem, and limbic system structures. Despite general agreement that autism is a neurobiologic disorder, there is still no consensus about which neuroanatomic or neurophysiologic abnormalities, detectable through neuroimaging, are characteristic of this disorder.

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Keyword(s): CEREBRAL BLOOD-FLOW; DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER; POSTERIOR-FOSSA STRUCTURES; RESONANCE-IMAGING EVIDENCE; BRAIN-SCAN FINDINGS; INFANTILE-AUTISM; CHILDHOOD AUTISM; COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS-CALLOSUM; GLUCOSE-METABOLISM

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