Local Functional Overconnectivity in Posterior Brain Regions Is Associated with Symptom Severity in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Although growing evidence indicates atypical long-distance connectivity in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), much less is known about local connectivity, despite conjectures that local overconnectivity may be causally involved in the disorder. Using functional connectivity MRI and graph theory, we fo...

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Main Authors: Christopher Lee Keown, Patricia Shih, Aarti Nair, Nick Peterson, Mark Edward Mulvey, Ralph-Axel Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-11-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221112471300572X