Monica Zilbovicius

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging results showing that individuals with autism failed to activate superior temporal sulcus voice-selective regions in response to vocal sounds, whereas they showed a normal activation pattern in Response to nonvocal sounds suggest abnormal cortical processing of socially relevant auditory information in autism.

TL;DR: An anatomical MRI study using optimized whole-brain voxel-based morphometry suggests that autism is associated with bilateral anatomical abnormalities localized in the superior temporal sulcus and are remarkably consistent with functional hypoperfusion previously reported in children with autism.

TL;DR: The idea that abnormal activation patterns in the lesioned brain are not necessarily related to the recovery process is supported, as the right hemisphere regions abnormally activated during simple language tasks seem to be associated with the initial persistence of the aphasia.

TL;DR: Cognitive development of the child seems to be related to changes in blood flow of the corresponding brain regions, which was studied by SPECT using 133Xe in 42 children considered as neurologically normal.

TL;DR: The hypothesis is that abnormalities in the superior temporal sulcus (STS) are highly implicated in ASD, and anatomical and functional anomalies occurring during early brain development could constitute the first step in the cascade of neural dysfunction underlying ASD.