Reduced functional integration and segregation of distributed neural systems underlying social and emotional information processing in Autism spectrum disorders

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1025-1037

  Rudie, Jeffrey D ^a,b,c   Shehzad, Zarrar ^d   Hernandez, Leanna M ^a,e   Colich, Natalie L ^a,e   Bookheimer, Susan Y ^a,e   Iacoboni, Marco ^a,e   Dapretto, Mirella ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; connectivity; default mode network; face processing; mirror neuron system

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL COGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84860147593     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr171     Document Type: Article

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