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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterised as “persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts” and “restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p. 50). Some examples of these characteristics can include “deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction”, “deficits in developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships”, “stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, use of objects, or speech”, and “highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p. 50).

Source: American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.

Mechanisms of facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorders: Insights from eye tracking and electroencephalography (2017)
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Abnormal functional activation and maturation of ventromedial prefrontal cortex and cerebellum during temporal discounting in autism spectrum disorder (2017)
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So close yet so far: Motor anomalies impacting on social functioning in autism spectrum disorder (2016)
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Ocular motor disturbances in autism spectrum disorders: Systematic review and comprehensive meta-analysis (2016)
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Brain mechanisms for processing affective (and nonaffective) touch are atypical in autism (2016)
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Under-reactive but easily distracted: An fMRI investigation of attentional capture in autism spectrum disorder (2016)
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Brain oscillations and connectivity in autism spectrum disorders (ASD): new approaches to methodology, measurement and modelling (2016)
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Dysfunction of sensory oscillations in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2016)
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Animal, but not human, faces engage the distributed face network in adolescents with autism (2016)
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The relationship between spoken language and speech and nonspeech processing in children with autism: a magnetic event-related field study (2016)
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Eye contact modulates cognitive processing differently in children with autism (2015)
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Error-monitoring in response to social stimuli in individuals with higher-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (2015)
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Face processing in autism spectrum disorders: From brain regions to brain networks (2015)
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Visual social attention in autism spectrum disorder: Insights from eye tracking studies (2014)
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Longitudinal processing speed impairments in males with autism and the effects of white matter microstructure (2014)
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Equivalent neural responses in children and adolescents with and without autism during judgments of affect (2014)
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Social perception in autism spectrum disorders: Impaired category selectivity for dynamic but not static images in ventral temporal cortex (2014)
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Underconnectivity between voice-selective cortex and reward circuitry in children with autism (2013)
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The development of multisensory integration in high-functioning autism: High-density electrical mapping and psychophysical measures reveal impairments in the processing of audiovisual inputs (2013)
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Reflecting on the mirror neuron system in autism: A systematic review of current theories (2013)
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Functional connectivity for an "Island of sparing" in autism spectrum disorder: An fMRI study of visual search (2013)
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The neural basis of aberrant speech and audition in autism spectrum disorders (2013)
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Multimodal emotion processing in autism spectrum disorders: An event-related potential study (2013)
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White matter microstructure correlates of narrative production in typically developing children and children with high functioning autism (2013)
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Neural mechanisms of encoding social and non-social context information in autism spectrum disorder (2012)
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Disrupted action perception in autism: Behavioral evidence, neuroendophenotypes, and diagnostic utility (2012)
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"The archeologist's career ended in ruins": Hemispheric differences in pun comprehension in autism (2012)
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Auditory processing in autism spectrum disorder: A review (2012)
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the fMRI investigation of autism spectrum disorders (2012)
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Enhanced neural responses to rule violation in children with autism: A comparison to social exclusion (2011)
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Children with high functioning autism show increased prefrontal and temporal cortex activity during error monitoring (2011)
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Atypical neural networks for social orienting in autism spectrum disorders (2011)
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Can children with autism spectrum disorders "hear" a speaking face? (2011)
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A systems level analysis of the mirror neuron hypothesis and imitation impairments in autism spectrum disorders (2011)
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Neural correlates of coherent and biological motion perception in autism (2011)
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An fMRI investigation of responses to peer rejection in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (2011)
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Temporal dynamics reveal atypical brain response to social exclusion in autism (2011)
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Controlling attention to gaze and arrows in childhood: An fMRI study of typical development and Autism Spectrum Disorders (2011)
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The effect of gaze direction on the processing of facial expressions in children with autism spectrum disorder: An ERP study (2010)
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Coherent motion processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD): An fMRI study (2010)
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Semantic, factual, and social language comprehension in adolescents with autism: An FMRI study (2010)
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How does the topic of conversation affect verbal exchange and eye gaze? A comparison between typical development and high-functioning autism (2010)
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Neuroimaging of the functional and structural networks underlying visuospatial vs. linguistic reasoning in high-functioning autism (2010)
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Speech-and-gesture integration in high functioning autism (2010)
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Autism: A world changing too fast for a mis-wired brain? (2009)
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Brainstem transcription of speech is disrupted in children with autism spectrum disorders (2009)
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Atypical eye contact in autism: Models, mechanisms and development (2009)
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The anterior insula in autism: Under-connected and under-examined (2009)
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Electroencephalogram and heart rate regulation to familiar and unfamiliar people in children with autism spectrum disorders (2009)
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Do individuals with autism process words in context? Evidence from language-mediated eye-movements (2008)
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Self responses along cingulate cortex reveal quantitative neural phenotype for high-functioning autism (2008)
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Perception of biological motion in autism spectrum disorders (2008)
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The phenotype and neural correlates of language in autism: An integrative review (2008)
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Do children with autism 'switch off' to speech sounds? An investigation using event-related potentials (2008)
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Neural and behavioral suppression of interfering flankers by children with and without autism spectrum disorder (2016)
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Low-contrast response deficits and increased neural noise in children with autism spectrum disorder (2014)
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Atypical category processing and hemispheric asymmetries in high-functioning children with autism: Revealed through high-density EEG mapping (2013)
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Atypical attentional networks and the emergence of autism (2013)
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Enhanced visual functioning in autism: An ALE meta-analysis (2012)
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The neural substrates of cognitive control deficits in autism spectrum disorders (2009)
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Atypical neural substrates of Embedded Figures Task performance in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2007)
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Parameters of semantic multisensory integration depend on timing and modality order among people on the autism spectrum: Evidence from event-related potentials (2012)
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Behavioral characterization of prediction and internal models in adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders (2016)
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Circadian rhythms and sleep in children with autism (2010)
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Changes in intrinsic local connectivity after reading intervention in children with autism (2017)
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Changes in intrinsic connectivity of the brain's reading network following intervention in children with autism (2015)
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“Decoding versus comprehension”: Brain responses underlying reading comprehension in children with autism (2017)
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Electrophysiological evidence of heterogeneity in visual statistical learning in young children with ASD (2015)
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Autistic adolescents show atypical activation of the brain's mentalizing system even without a prior history of mentalizing problems (2014)​
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Deficits in volitional oculomotor control align with language status in autism spectrum disorders (2013)
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Brain enlargement is associated with regression in preschool-age boys with autism spectrum disorders (2011)
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Face scanning distinguishes social from communication impairments in Autism (2010)
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Cortical folding abnormalities in autism revealed by surface-based morphometry (2007)
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Heterogeneity in the patterns of neural abnormality in autistic spectrum disorders: Evidence from ERP and MRI (2007)
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Intrinsic functional connectivity variance and state-specific under-connectivity in autism (2017)
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Functional connectivity between the temporoparietal cortex and cerebellum in autism spectrum disorder (2017)
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Cerebellar contributions to biological motion perception in autism and typical development (2017)
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Multiple functional networks modeling for autism spectrum disorder diagnosis (2017)
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Predicting symptom severity in autism spectrum disorder based on cortical thickness measures in agglomerative data (2017)
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Multi-task diagnosis for autism spectrum disorders using multi-modality features: A multi-center study (2017)
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Patterns of atypical functional connectivity and behavioral links in autism differ between default, salience, and executive networks (2016)
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Functional connectivity of brain regions for self- and other-evaluation in children, adolescents and adults with autism (2016)
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Variability of cortical oscillation patterns: A possible endophenotype in autism spectrum disorders? (2016)
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Atypical developmental of dorsal and ventral attention networks in autism (2016)
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Anatomical abnormalities in autism? (2016)
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Atypical age-dependent effects of autism on white matter microstructure in children of 2-7 years (2016)
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Neuroanatomical and neurofunctional markers of social cognition in autism spectrum disorder (2016)
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A theoretical rut: revisiting and critically evaluating the generalized under/over-connectivity hypothesis of autism (2016)
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Two years changes in the development of caudate nucleus are involved in restricted repetitive behaviors in 2-5-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder (2016)
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Cortical thickness change in autism during early childhood (2016)
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Enhanced brain signal variability in children with autism spectrum disorder during early childhood (2016)
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Desynchronization of fronto-temporal networks during working memory processing in autism (2016)
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Altered white matter connectivity as a neural substrate for social impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2015)
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Analysis of cortical shape in children with simplex autism (2015)
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Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging and neural network classified autism and control (2015)
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Coordinated information generation and mental flexibility: Large-scale network disruption in children with autism (2015)
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Regional specificity of aberrant thalamocortical connectivity in autism (2015)
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Resting-state functional connectivity predicts longitudinal change in autistic traits and adaptive functioning in autism (2015)
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Brain state differentiation and behavioral inflexibility in autism (2015)
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Multicenter mapping of structural network alterations in autism (2015)
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Concordance of white matter and gray matter abnormalities in autism spectrum disorders: A voxel-based meta-analysis study (2014)
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Neocerebellar contributions to social perception in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (2014)
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Differences in the right inferior longitudinal fasciculus but no general disruption of white matter tracts in children with autism spectrum disorder (2014)
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Network-based analysis reveals stronger local diffusion-based connectivity and different correlations with oral language skills in brains of children with high functioning autism spectrum disorders (2014)
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Surface-based morphometry of the cortical architecture of autism spectrum disorders: Volume, thickness, area, and gyrification (2014)
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Attribution of emotions to body postures: An independent component analysis study of functional connectivity in autism (2014)
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Disruption of functional organization within the primary motor cortex in children with autism (2014)
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Neural systems for cognitive reappraisal in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (2014)
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Structural and functional underconnectivity as a negative predictor for language in autism (2014)
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Dysmaturation of the default mode network in autism (2014)
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Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders using regional and interregional morphological features (2014)
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Atypical resting synchrony in autism spectrum disorder (2014)
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Brain growth rate abnormalities visualized in adolescents with autism (2013)
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Local and long-range functional connectivity is reduced in concert in autism spectrum disorders (2013)
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Female children with autism spectrum disorder: An insight from mass-univariate and pattern classification analyses (2012)
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The hemodynamic response in children with Simplex Autism (2012)
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Characteristic cortical thickness patterns in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders: Interactions with age and intellectual ability revealed by canonical correlation analysis (2012)
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Brain structure anomalies in autism spectrum disorder-a meta-analysis of VBM studies using anatomic likelihood estimation (2012)
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Reduced functional integration and segregation of distributed neural systems underlying social and emotional information processing in Autism spectrum disorders (2012)
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High-frequency oscillatory response to illusory contour in typically developing boys and boys with autism spectrum disorders (2012)
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Brain connectivity and high functioning autism: A promising path of research that needs refined models, methodological convergence, and stronger behavioral links (2012)
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Altered intrinsic functional connectivity of anterior and posterior insula regions in high-functioning participants with autism spectrum disorder (2011)
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The influence of visual saliency on fixation patterns in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (2011)
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Underconnected, but how? A survey of functional connectivity MRI studies in autism spectrum disorders (2011)
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Microstructural abnormalities of short-distance white matter tracts in autism spectrum disorder (2011)
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Abnormal white matter integrity in young children with autism (2011)
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Abnormal functional connectivity of default mode sub-networks in autism spectrum disorder patients (2010)
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Atypical development of white matter microstructure in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (2010)
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Microstructural connectivity of the arcuate fasciculus in adolescents with high-functioning autism (2010)
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Predictive models of autism spectrum disorder based on brain regional cortical thickness (2010)
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Language laterality in autism spectrum disorder and typical controls: A functional, volumetric, and diffusion tensor MRI study (2010)
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Alterations in frontal lobe tracts and corpus callosum in young children with autism spectrum disorder (2010)
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Longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study of cortical development through early childhood in autism (2010)
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Mapping brain abnormalities in boys with autism (2009)
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Diffusion tensor imaging of the corpus callosum in Autism (2007)
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