Underconnectivity between voice-selective cortex and reward circuitry in children with autism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 12060-12065

  Abrams, Daniel A ^a   Lynch, Charles J ^a   Cheng, Katherine M ^a   Phillips, Jennifer ^a   Supekar, Kaustubh ^a   Ryali, Srikanth ^a   Uddin, Lucina Q ^a   Menon, Vinod ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory Cortex; Nucleus Accumbens

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VOICE PERCEPTION;

AUDITORY CORTEX; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REWARD; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84880349986     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302982110     Document Type: Article

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