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Similarities in the phenotype of the auditory neural substrate in children with Asperger syndrome and their parents.
The European journal of neuroscience - 1 Aug 2005
Jansson-Verkasalo E, Kujala T, Jussila K, Mattila M L, Moilanen I, Näätänen R, Suominen K, Korpilahti P
Abstract excerpt
Asperger syndrome (AS) is a developmental disorder of brain function characterized by deficits in social interaction including difficulties in understanding emotional expressions. Children with AS share some of the behavioural characteristics with their parents and AS seems to run particularly in the male members of the same families. The aim of the present study was to determine whether similarities could be...
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