Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Brief report: Attention performance in autism and regional brain metabolic rate assessed by positron emission tomography

  • Brief Reports
  • Published:
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Bauman, M., & Kemper, T. L. (1985). Histoanatomic observations of the brain in early infanitile autism.Neurology 35, 866–874.

    Google Scholar 

  • Buchsbaum, M. S., DeLisi, L. E., Holcomb, H. H., Cappelletti, J., King, A. C., Johnson, J., Hazlett, E., Dowling-Zimmerman, S., Post, R. M., Morihisa, J., Carpenter, W., Cohen, R., Pickar, D., Weinberger, D. R., Margolin, R. & Kessler, R. M. (1984). Anteroposterior gradients in cerebral glucose use in schizophrenia and affective disorders.Archives of General Psychiatry, 41, 1159–1166.

    Google Scholar 

  • Buchsbaum, M. S., & Haier, R. J. (1987). Functional and anatomical brain imaging: Impact on schizophrenia research.Schizophrenia Bulletin, 13, 115–132.

    Google Scholar 

  • Buchsbaum, M. S., Ingvar, D. H., Kessler, R., Waters, R. N., Cappelletti, J., van Kammen, D. P., King, A. C., Johnson, J. L., Manning, R. G., Flynn, R. W., Mann, L. S., Bunney, W. E., & Sokoloff, L. (1982). Cerebral glucography with positron tomography.Archives of General Psychiatry, 39, 251–259.

    Google Scholar 

  • Buchsbaum, M. S., Nuechterlein, K. H., Haier, R. J., Wu, J., Sicotte, N., Hazlett, E., Asarnow, R., Potkin, S., & Guich, S. (1990). Glucose metabolic rate in normals and schizophrenics during the continuous performance test assessed by positron emission tomography.British Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 216–227.

    Google Scholar 

  • Buchsbaum, M. S., Wu, J. C., DeLisi, L. E., Holcomb, H. H., Hazlett, E., & Cooper-Langston, K. (1987). Positron emission tomography studies of basal ganglia and somatosensory cortex neuroleptic drug effects: Differences between normal controls and schizophrenic patients.Biological Psychiatry, 22, 479–494.

    Google Scholar 

  • Buchsbaum, M. S., Wu, J., DeLisi, L. E., Holcomb, H., Kessler, R., Johnson, J. King, A. C., Hazlett, E., Langston, K., & Post, R. M. (1986). Frontal cortex and basal ganglia metabolic rates assessed by positron emission tomography with 18F-2-deoxyglucose in affective illness.Journal of Affective Disorders, 10, 137–152.

    Google Scholar 

  • Buchsbaum, M. S., Wu, J., Haier, R., Hazlett, E., Ball, R., Katz, M., Sokolski, K., Lagunas-Solar, M., & Langer, D. (1987). Postron emission tomography assessment of effects of benzodiazepines on regional glucose metabolic rate in patients with anxiety disorder.Life Sciences, 40, 2393–2400.

    Google Scholar 

  • Courchesne, E., Yeung-Courchesne, R., Press, G. A., Hesselink, J. R., & Jernigan, T. L. (1988). Hypoplasia of cerebellar vermal lobules VI and VII in autism.New England Journal of Medicine, 318, 1349–1354.

    Google Scholar 

  • Creasey, H., Rumsey, J. M., Schwartz, M., Duara, D., Rapoport, J. L., & Rapoport, S. I. (1986). Brain morphometry in autistic men as measured by volumetric computed tomography.Archives of Neurology, 43, 669–672.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dawson, G., Warrenberg, S., & Fuller, P. (1982). Cerebral lateralization in individuals diagnosed as autistic in early childhood.Brain and Language, 15, 353–368.

    Google Scholar 

  • DeMyer, M. K., Hingtgen, J. N., & Jackson R. K. (1981). Infantile autism reviewed: A decade of research.Schizophrenia Bulletin, 7, 388–440.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dixon, W. J. (1981) BMDP biomedical statistical software. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heh, C. W. C., Smith, R., Wu, J., Hazlett, E., Russell, A., Asarnow, R., Tanguay, P., & Buchsbaum, M. S. (1989). Positron emission tomography of the cerebellum in autism.American Journal of Psychiatry, 146, 242–245.

    Google Scholar 

  • Herjanic, B., & Campbell, W. (1977). Differentiating psychiatrically disturbed children on the basis of a structured interview.Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 5, 127–134.

    Google Scholar 

  • Koegel, R. L., & Wilhelm, H. (1973). Selective responding to the components of multiple visual cues by autistic children.Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 15, 442–453.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lovaas, O. I., & Schreibman, L. (1971). Stimulus overselectivity of autistic children in a two-stimulus situation.Behavior Research and Therapy, 9, 305–310.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lovaas, O. I., Schreibman, L., Koegel, R., & Rehm, R. (1971). Selective responding by autistic children to multiple sensory input.Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 77, 211–222.

    Google Scholar 

  • Matsui, T., & Hirano, A. (1978). An atlas of the human brain for computerized tomography. Tokyo: Igaku-Shoin.

    Google Scholar 

  • McCann, B. S. (1981). Hemispheric asymmetries and early infantile autism.Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 11, 401–411.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nuechterlein, K. H., & Dawson, M. E. (1984). Information processing and attentional functioning in the developmental course of schizophrenic disorders.Schizophrenia Bulletin, 10, 60–203.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nuechterlein, K. H., Parasuraman, R., & Jiang, Q. (1983). Visual sustained attention: Image degradation produces rapid decrement over time.Science, 220, 327–329.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ornitz, E. M., (1985). Neurophysiology of infantile autism.Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 24, 251–262.

    Google Scholar 

  • Petty, L. K., Ornitz, E. M., Michelman, J. D., & Zimmerman, E. G. (1984). Autistic children who become schizophrenic.Archives of General Psychiatry, 41, 129–135.

    Google Scholar 

  • Prior, M. (1979). Learning abilities and disabilities in childhood autism: A review.Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 7, 357–380.

    Google Scholar 

  • Puig-Antich, J., & Chambers, W. (1978). The schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia for school-aged children (Kiddie-SADS) New York: New York State Psychiatric Institute.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ritvo, E. R., Freeman, B. J., Scheibel, A. B., Duong, T., Robinson, H., Guthrie, D., & Ritvo, A. (1986). Lower Purkinje cell counts in the cerebella of four autistic subjects: Initial findings of the UCLA-NSAC autopsy research report.American Journal of Psychiatry, 143, 862–866.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rumsey, J. M., Duara, R., Grady, C., Rapoport, J. L., Margolin, R. A., Rapoport, S. I., & Cutler, N. R. (1985). Brain metabolism in autism. Resting cerebral glucose utilization rates as measured with positron emission tomography.Archives of General Psychiatry, 42, 448–455.

    Google Scholar 

  • Russell, A. T., Bott, L., & Sammons, C. (1989). The phenomenology of prepubertal onset schizophrenia.Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 28, 399–407.

    Google Scholar 

  • Swedo, S. E., Schapiro, M. B., Grady, C. L., Cheslow, D. L., Leonard, H. L., Kumar, A., Friedland, R., Rapoport, S. I., & Rapoport, J. L. (1989). Cerebral glucose metabolism in childhood-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder.Archives of General Psychiatry, 46, 518–523.

    Google Scholar 

  • Williams, R. S., Hauser, S. L., Purpura, D. P., DeLong, R., & Swisher, C. N. (1980). Autism and mental retardation: Neuropathologic studies performed in four retarded persons with autistic behavior.Archives of Neurology, 37, 749–753.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, 92717, Irvine, California

    M. S. Buchsbaum, B. V. Siegel Jr., J. C. Wu, E. Hazlett, N. Sicotte, R. Haier, T. Cadorette, D. Donoghue, J. Paek & D. Sabalesky

  2. Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles

    P. Tanguay & R. Asarnow

  3. Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, University of California, Davis

    M. Lagunas-Solar

  4. Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, University of California, Irvine

    I. Lott

Authors
  1. M. S. Buchsbaum
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. B. V. Siegel Jr.
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. J. C. Wu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. E. Hazlett
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. N. Sicotte
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. R. Haier
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. P. Tanguay
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  8. R. Asarnow
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  9. T. Cadorette
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  10. D. Donoghue
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  11. M. Lagunas-Solar
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  12. I. Lott
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  13. J. Paek
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  14. D. Sabalesky
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

The Stallone Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation provided partial support for this research. Andrew Russell, Linda Bott, and Cathy Sammons did the diagnostic interviews.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Buchsbaum, M.S., Siegel, B.V., Wu, J.C. et al. Brief report: Attention performance in autism and regional brain metabolic rate assessed by positron emission tomography. J Autism Dev Disord 22, 115–125 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01046407

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01046407

Keywords

Search

Navigation