The amygdala and the relevance detection theory of autism: An evolutionary perspective

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Zalla, Tiziana ^a   Sperduti, Marco ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Autism spectrum disorders; Self relevance; Social brain; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ALEXITHYMIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ASSOCIATION; AUTISM; AUTOPSY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EYE FIXATION; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; GAZE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT; RELEVANCE DETECTION THEORY; REVIEW; REWARD; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THEORY; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84892563388     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00894     Document Type: Review

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