Age-related changes in amygdala-frontal connectivity during emotional face processing from childhood into young adulthood.

ABSTRACT: The ability to process and respond to emotional facial expressions is a critical skill for healthy social and emotional development. There has been growing interest in understanding the neural circuitry underlying development of emotional processing, with previous research implicating functional connectivity between amygdala and frontal regions. However, existing work has focused on threatening emotional faces, raising questions regarding the extent to which these developmental patterns are specific to threat or to emotional face processing more broadly. In the current study, we examined age-related changes in brain activity and amygdala functional connectivity during an fMRI emotional face matching task (including angry, fearful, and happy faces) in 61 healthy subjects aged 7-25 years. We

SUBMITTER: Wu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4837047 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature