http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4612 <table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="left"/></tr></table> <p><b>Typical and Atypical Neurodevelopment for Face Specialization: An fMRI Study.</b></p> <p>J Autism Dev Disord. 2014 Dec 6;</p> <p>Authors: Joseph JE, Zhu X, Gundran A, Davies F, Clark JD, Ruble L, Glaser P, Bhatt RS</p> <p>Abstract<br/> Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their relatives process faces differently from typically developed (TD) individuals. In an fMRI face-viewing task, TD and undiagnosed sibling (SIB) children (5-18 years) showed face specialization in the right amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, with left fusiform and right amygdala face specialization increasing with age in TD subjects. SIBs showed extensive antero-medial temporal lobe activation for faces that was not present in any other group, suggesting a potential compensatory mechanism. In ASD, face specialization was minimal but increased with age in the right fusiform and decreased with age in the left amygdala, suggesting atypical development of a frontal-amygdala-fusiform system which is strongly linked to detecting salience and processing facial information.<br/> </p><p>PMID: 25479816 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]</p> en-us Copyright 2000-2026 NITRC OSI Fri, 01 May 2026 9:50:17 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NITRC RSS generator