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ArticleScientific reports2020

Diffusion kurtosis imaging of gray matter in young adults with autism spectrum disorder.

Faye McKenna, Laura Miles, Jeffrey Donaldson, F Xavier Castellanos, Mariana Lazar

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Faye McKennaDepartment of Radiology, Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York University School of Medicine, 660 First Ave, Fourth Floor, New York, NY, USA. faye.mckenna@nyulangone.org.
Laura MilesDepartment of Radiology, Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York University School of Medicine, 660 First Ave, Fourth Floor, New York, NY, USA.
Jeffrey DonaldsonDepartment of Radiology, Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York University School of Medicine, 660 First Ave, Fourth Floor, New York, NY, USA.
F Xavier CastellanosDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Mariana LazarDepartment of Radiology, Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York University School of Medicine, 660 First Ave, Fourth Floor, New York, NY, USA.
New York University · US

Funding

Anatomical Connectivity in the Autistic BrainR03MH076180 · NIMH · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI LAZAR, MARIANA · 2007 to 2008
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NIMH NIH HHS R03 MH076180NIMH NIH HHS R03-MH076180
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prior ex vivo histological postmortem studies of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have shown gray matter microstructural abnormalities, however, in vivo examination of gray matter microstructure in ASD has remained scarce due to the relative lack of non-invasive methods to assess it. The aim of this work was to evaluate the feasibility of employing diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI) to describe gray matter abnormalities in ASD in vivo. DKI data were examined for 16 male participants with a diagnosis of ASD and IQ>80 and 17 age- and IQ-matched male typically developing (TD) young adults 18-25 years old. Mean (MK), axial (AK), radial (RK) kurtosis and mean diffusivity (MD) metrics were calculated for lobar and sub-lobar regions of interest. Significantly decreased MK, RK, and MD were found in ASD compared to TD participants in the frontal and temporal lobes and several sub-lobar regions previously associated with ASD pathology. In ASD participants, decreased kurtosis in gray matter ROIs correlated with increased repetitive and restricted behaviors and poor social interaction symptoms. Decreased kurtosis in ASD may reflect a pathology associated with a less restrictive microstructural environment such as decreased neuronal density and size, atypically sized cortical columns, or limited dendritic arborizations.

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AdolescentAdultAutism Spectrum DisorderDiffusion Magnetic Resonance ImagingGray MatterHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMaleYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID33293640
PMCPMC7722927
OpenAlexW3113170545

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