Nicolaas A. J. Puts1,
2, Taylor Koriakin, Ericka L. Wodka, Mark Tommerdahl3, Peter
B. Barker1, 2, Stewart H. Mostofsky4,
Richard Anthony Edward Edden1, 2
1The
Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States; 2FM Kirby Centre
for functional neuroimaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United
States; 3Biomedical engineering, University of North Carolina,
Chapel hill, NC, United States; 4School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD, United States
GABA-MRS was combined with behavioural tactile measures in typically developing children and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and showed a reduction in GABA concentration as well as a impairment in tactile processing in children with ASD.