Autonomic responses of autistic children to people and objects

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1479, 2001, Pages 1883-1888

  Hirstein, W ^a   Iversen, P ^a   Ramachandran, V S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Autism; Autonomic; Electrodermal; Face recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTOMUTILATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SELF STIMULATION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0035934614     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1724     Document Type: Article

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