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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2016

Relationship Between Cortical Gyrification, White Matter Connectivity, and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

C Ecker, D Andrews, F Dell'Acqua, E Daly, C Murphy, M Catani, M Thiebaut de Schotten, S Baron-Cohen, M C Lai, M V Lombardo and 7 more

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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48 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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17 authors.

C EckerDepartment of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London SE5 8AF, UK Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
D AndrewsDepartment of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London SE5 8AF, UK.
F Dell'AcquaDepartment of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London SE5 8AF, UK.
E DalyDepartment of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London SE5 8AF, UK.
C MurphyDepartment of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London SE5 8AF, UK.
M CataniDepartment of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London SE5 8AF, UK.
M Thiebaut de SchottenDepartment of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London SE5 8AF, UK.
S Baron-CohenAutism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 8AH, UK.
M C LaiAutism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 8AH, UK Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative at the Centre or Addiction and Mental Health and The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M6J 1H4, Canada Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan 100, R.O.C.
M V LombardoAutism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 8AH, UK Department of Psychology and Center for Applied Neuroscience, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus.
E T BullmoreBrain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SZ, UK.
J SucklingBrain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SZ, UK.
S WilliamsCentre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London SE5 8AF, UK.
D K JonesCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 5HQ, UK.
A ChiocchettiDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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D G M MurphyDepartment of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London SE5 8AF, UK.

Funding

Department of Health RP-PG-0606-1045Medical Research Council G0400061Medical Research Council G0600977Medical Research Council G1000183Medical Research Council MR/N026063/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition, which is accompanied by differences in gray matter neuroanatomy and white matter connectivity. However, it is unknown whether these differences are linked or reflect independent aetiologies. Using a multimodal neuroimaging approach, we therefore examined 51 male adults with ASD and 48 neurotypical controls to investigate the relationship between gray matter local gyrification (lGI) and white matter diffusivity in associated fiber tracts. First, ASD individuals had a significant increase in gyrification around the left pre- and post-central gyrus. Second, white matter fiber tracts originating and/or terminating in the cluster of increased lGI had a significant increase in axial diffusivity. This increase in diffusivity was predominantly observed in tracts in close proximity to the cortical sheet. Last, we demonstrate that the increase in lGI was significantly correlated with increased diffusivity of short tracts. This relationship was not significantly modulated by a main effect of group (i.e., ASD), which was more closely associated with gray matter gyrification than white matter diffusivity. Our findings suggest that differences in gray matter neuroanatomy and white matter connectivity are closely linked, and may reflect common rather than distinct aetiological pathways.

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AdolescentAdultAutism Spectrum DisorderCerebral CortexDiffusion Tensor ImagingGray MatterHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalIntelligenceMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleNeural PathwaysOrgan SizePattern Recognition, AutomatedWhite MatterYoung AdultAutism spectrum disorderbrain anatomybrain connectivitybrain developmentmultimodal neuroimaging

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PMID27130663
PMCPMC4898679

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