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Amygdala enlargement in toddlers with autism related to severity of social and communication impairments

Schumann CM, Barnes CC, Lord C, Courchesne E. Amygdala enlargement in toddlers with autism related to severity of social and communication impairments. Biol Psychiatry. November 2009;66(10):942-949.

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Publication Date
November 2009

How Analyze was Used
“To measure amygdala volume, each raw MPRAGE sequence was imported into the program Analyze 8.1 [Robb et al. 1989] and processed in an identical manner to procedures described in Schumann et al. [2004].”

Keywords
Amygdala/pathology
Analysis of Variance
Autistic Disorder/complications/pathology
Child, Preschool
Communication Disorders/etiology/pathology
Female
Functional Laterality/physiology
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods
Infant
Linear Models
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)/methods
Male
Sex Factors
Social Behavior Disorders/etiology/pathology

Author Affiliation(s)
Department of Neurosciences, Autism Center of Excellence, University of California, San Diego, CA, US. (CMS, CCB, EC)

Department of Psychology, Autism and Communication Disorders Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US. (CL)

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