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SUBMITTER: Andrews DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6093436 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Andrews Derek Sayre DS Avino Thomas A TA Gudbrandsen Maria M Daly Eileen E Marquand Andre A Murphy Clodagh M CM Lai Meng-Chuan MC Lombardo Michael V MV Ruigrok Amber N V AN Williams Steven C SC Bullmore Edward T ET The Mrc Aims Consortium Suckling John J Baron-Cohen Simon S Craig Michael C MC Murphy Declan G M DG Ecker Christine C
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20170201 2
Atypical cortical organization and reduced integrity of the gray-white matter boundary have been reported by postmortem studies in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, there are no in vivo studies that examine these particular features of cortical organization in ASD. Hence, we used structural magnetic resonance imaging to examine differences in tissue contrast between gray and white matter in 98 adults with ASD and 98 typically developing controls, to test the hypothesis th ...[more]