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September 10, 2025Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Neural circuitry of emotional face processing in autism spectrum disorders

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CMChristopher S. MonkUniversity of MichiganSWShih-Jen WengDuke-NUS Medical SchoolJWJillian Lee WigginsSan Diego State University

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Implication

Functional imaging reveals amygdala activation differences in emotional face processing in ASD, suggesting altered connectivity.

Key Points

  • Participants with ASD exhibited greater amygdala activation in response to emotional faces, indicating a neural processing difference.
  • In the ASD group, stronger amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex connectivity was observed, contrasting with weaker connectivity to the temporal lobe.
  • The observational analysis involved 24 participants, with 12 having ASD and 12 as controls, during an attention bias task using emotional faces.
  • Findings highlight significant alterations in neural connectivity associated with emotion and face processing disturbances in ASD.

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Monk et al. (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c199f49b7b07f3a061c09dhttps://doi.org/10.1139/jpn.090085
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