Abnormal Cerebral Blood Flow in Childhood Autism

Abstract

Brain-perfusion single photon emission computed tomography was used to determine regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in 23 children with infantile autism and 26 non-autistic controls, evaluated at the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira City, Tokyo, Japan.

Keywords

• cerebral blood flow
• infantile autism
• theory of mind