Research Review: Social motivation and oxytocin in autism - Implications for joint attention development and intervention

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 603-618

  Stavropoulos, Katherine K M ^a   Carver, Leslie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; behavioral interventions; social motivation hypothesis

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; OXTR PROTEIN, HUMAN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTISM; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN; CHILD; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MOTIVATION; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; REWARD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOPAMINE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTIVATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYTOCIN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; REFERENCE VALUES; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84878111472     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12061     Document Type: Review

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