Impaired social brain network for processing dynamic facial expressions in autism spectrum disorders

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sato, Wataru ^a,b   Toichi, Motomi ^a,b   Uono, Shota ^a   Kochiyama, Takanori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b The Organization for Promoting Neurodevelopmental Disorder Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Autism spectrum disorders (ASD); Dynamic facial expression; Fusiform gyrus; Inferior frontal gyrus; Medial prefrontal cortex; Middle temporal gyrus superior temporal sulcus; Mirror neuron system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864815499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-13-99     Document Type: Article

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