Atypical Neural Networks for Social Orienting in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Published May 1, 2011 in Neuroimage, Greene et al.

Researchers at UCLA used fMRI to examine the neural mechanisms involved in social interactions in autism spectrum disorders in order to provide insight into the social attention impairments that characterize the disorder. Researchers examined children and adolescents with ASD with social and nonsocial cues. Data revealed that in typically developing individuals, there was greater responsiveness for social cues than nonsocial cues, compared to ASD. The researchers concluded that this difference indicated that the autistic brain does not assign the same privileged status to social cues as assigned in the typically developing brain.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21334443

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