Autistic adolescents show atypical activation of the brain's mentalizing system even without a prior history of mentalizing problems

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-25

  White, Sarah J ^a   Frith, Uta ^a   Rellecke, Julian ^b   Al Noor, Zainab ^a   Gilbert, Sam J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autism; Development; Longitudinal; Social impairment; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LATERAL TEMPORAL CORTEX; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORY OF MIND TEST BATTERY;

AUTISM; DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL; SOCIAL IMPAIRMENT; THEORY OF MIND;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84892876493     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.12.013     Document Type: Article

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