Journal
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages 431-433Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.08.002
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- NICHD NIH HHS [HD 035470] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH 63680] Funding Source: Medline
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A new brain imaging study demonstrates that patients with autism have a strikingly different pattern of brain activity compared with control subjects. During cognitive tasks, cortical areas known as the 'default state' network - areas that have been implicated in both self-referential processing and processing of socially relevant information - typically reduce their brain activity. In patients with autism, such a reduction was not observed. This new finding indicates that a core deficit in autism might be related to the construal of a sense of self in its relationship with others and will certainly generate exciting new research on the neurobiology of autism.
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