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Probing the Brain in Autism Using fMRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Published on: September 12, 2011
[Autism and neuroscience]
1Institut de pédagogie curative, Universite de Fribourg Rue St-Pierre Canisius 23 ,1700 Fribourg.
Revue Medicale Suisse
|November 28, 2006
Abstract:
The understanding of autism has improved with neurosciences, especially with genetics, molecular biology and cerebral neuroimaging. This trouble looks much more heterogenous than expected, from a clinical and an etiological point of view as well. No clear pathopsychological model about the syndromes of the autistic spectrum can so far be proposed but several scientific breakthroughs seem interesting.
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