The brain response to personally familiar faces in autism: Findings of fusiform activity and beyond

Brain

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2703-2716

  Pierce, Karen ^a,c,d   Haist, Frank ^b   Sedaghat, Farshad ^c   Courchesne, Eric ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Autism; Face processing; FMRI, fusiform face area

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOTHER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

EID: 10344231538     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh289     Document Type: Article

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