title: Understanding autism and related disorders: what has imaging taught us?
abstract: Structural imaging studies of autism have documented increased total brain volume and early acceleration in brain growth. Functional MR imaging (fMRI) studies in autism have also led to the view of autism as a disorder of cortical functioning in which functional connectivity or synchronization of brain regions and cortical activity are disturbed with atypical cortical specialization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Rangos School of Health Sciences, Fisher Hall 412, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282, USA.
authors.forename: Diane L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Nancy J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Minshew
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy