Association between amygdala response to emotional faces and social anxiety in autism spectrum disorders

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3665-3670

  Kleinhans, Natalia M ^a,b   Richards, Todd ^a,b   Weaver, Kurt ^a,b   Johnson, L Clark ^b   Greenson, Jessica ^b   Dawson, Geraldine ^c   Aylward, Elizabeth ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Autism Speaks   (United States)

^d Seattle Children's Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Asperger's disorder; Autism; Emotional face processing; Fusiform face area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF REPORT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957293768     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.022     Document Type: Article

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