Neurobiology of social behavior abnormalities in autism and Williams syndrome

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 647-655

  Barak, Boaz ^a,b   Feng, Guoping ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALA THEORY; AUTISM; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CORTICAL DYSFUNCTION; EMOTION; FRONTAL LOBE DYSFUNCTION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL MOTIVATION THEORY; SOCIAL STATUS; SPEECH DISORDER; THEORY; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

EID: 84964797303     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4276     Document Type: Review

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