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Research review: Constraining heterogeneity: the social brain and its development in autism spectrum disorder.
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines - 1 Jun 2011
Pelphrey Kevin A, Shultz Sarah, Hudac Caitlin M, Vander Wyk Brent C
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The expression of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is highly heterogeneous, owing to the complex interactions between genes, the brain, and behavior throughout development. Here we present a model of ASD that implicates an early and initial failure to develop the specialized functions of one or more of the set of neuroanatomical structures involved in social information processing (i.e., the 'social brain'). From...
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