Increased Functional Connectivity During Emotional Face Processing in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.

ABSTRACT: Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate poor social functioning, which may be related to atypical emotional face processing. Altered functional connectivity among brain regions, particularly involving limbic structures may be implicated. The current magnetoencephalography (MEG) study investigated whole-brain functional connectivity of eight a priori identified brain regions during the implicit presentation of happy and angry faces in 20 7 to 10-year-old children with ASD and 22 typically developing controls. Findings revealed a network of increased alpha-band phase synchronization during the first 400 ms of happy face processing in children with ASD compared to controls. This network of increased alpha-band phase synchronization involved the left fusiform gyrus,

SUBMITTER: Safar K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6191493 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature