Neuhaus, E. and Jones, Emily J.H. and Barnes, K. and Sterling, L. and Estes, A. and Munson, J. and Dawson, G. and Webb, S.J. (2016) The relationship between early neural responses to emotional faces at age 3 and later autism and anxiety symptoms in adolescents with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 46 (7), pp. 2450-2463. ISSN 0162-3257.
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Abstract
Both autism spectrum (ASD) and anxiety disorders are associated with atypical neural and attentional responses to emotional faces, differing in affective face processing from typically developing peers. Within a longitudinal study of children with ASD (23 male, 3 female), we hypothesized that early ERPs to emotional faces would predict concurrent and later ASD and anxiety symptoms. Greater response amplitude to fearful faces corresponded to greater social communication difficulties at age 3, and less improvement by age 14. Faster ERPs to neutral faces predicted greater ASD symptom improvement over time, lower ASD severity in adolescence, and lower anxiety in adolescence. Early individual differences in processing of emotional stimuli likely reflect a unique predictive contribution from social brain circuitry early in life.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | The final publication is available at Springer via the link above. |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Autism, Face processing, ERP, Internalizing, Anxiety |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD) |
| Depositing User: | Emily Jones |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2016 15:58 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:23 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14888 |
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