Cerebro-cerebellar circuits in autism spectrum disorder

AM D'Mello, CJ Stoodley - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The cerebellum is one of the most consistent sites of abnormality in autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) and cerebellar damage is associated with an increased risk of ASD …

Auditory processing in autism spectrum disorder: a review

K O'Connor - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
For individuals with autism spectrum disorder or 'ASD'the ability to accurately process and
interpret auditory information is often difficult. Here we review behavioural …

White matter integrity, fiber count, and other fallacies: the do's and don'ts of diffusion MRI

DK Jones, TR Knösche, R Turner - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
Diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) has been increasingly used in imaging neuroscience
over the last decade. An early form of this technique, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was …

Differences in white matter fiber tract development present from 6 to 24 months in infants with autism

JJ Wolff, H Gu, G Gerig, JT Elison… - American journal of …, 2012 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Evidence from prospective studies of high-risk infants suggests that early
symptoms of autism usually emerge late in the first or early in the second year of life after a …

Altered white matter connectivity as a neural substrate for social impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder

SH Ameis, M Catani - Cortex, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) symptoms have been hypothesized
to result from altered brain connectivity. The 'disconnectivity'hypothesis has been used to …

Diffusion tensor imaging in autism spectrum disorder: a review

BG Travers, N Adluru, C Ennis, DPM Tromp… - Autism …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
White matter tracts of the brain allow neurons and neuronal networks to communicate and
function with high efficiency. The aim of this review is to briefly introduce diffusion tensor …

Maternal infection during pregnancy and autism spectrum disorders

O Zerbo, Y Qian, C Yoshida, JK Grether… - Journal of autism and …, 2015 - Springer
We conducted a nested case–control study including 407 cases and 2,075 frequency
matched controls to investigate the association between maternal infections during …

The implications of brain connectivity in the neuropsychology of autism

JO Maximo, EJ Cadena, RK Kana - Neuropsychology review, 2014 - Springer
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that has been associated with atypical brain
functioning. Functional connectivity MRI (fcMRI) studies examining neural networks in …

Underconnected, but how? A survey of functional connectivity MRI studies in autism spectrum disorders

RA Müller, P Shih, B Keehn, JR Deyoe… - Cerebral …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Growing consensus suggests that autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are associated with
atypical brain networks, thus shifting the focus to the study of connectivity. Many functional …

Brain connectivity and high functioning autism: a promising path of research that needs refined models, methodological convergence, and stronger behavioral links

ME Vissers, MX Cohen, HM Geurts - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2012 - Elsevier
Here we review findings from studies investigating functional and structural brain
connectivity in high functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The …