Cited by 56Genetics and Neurodevelopmental DisordersFace Recognition and PerceptionAutism Spectrum Disorder Research

Prefrontal social cognition network dysfunction underlying face encoding and social anxiety in fragile X syndrome

Open access
Holsen, Laura M., Dalton, Kim M., Johnstone, Tom, Davidson, Richard J.·2008·NeuroImage

Abstract

Individuals with fragile X syndrome (FXS) commonly display characteristics of social anxiety, including gaze aversion, increased time to initiate social interaction, and difficulty forming meaningful peer relationships. While neural correlates of face processing, an important component of social interaction, are altered in FXS, studies have not examined whether social anxiety in this population is related to higher cognitive processes, such as memory. This study aimed to determine whether the neural circuitry involved in face encoding was disrupted in individuals with FXS, and whether brain activity during face encoding was related to levels of social anxiety. A group of 11 individuals with FXS (5 M) and 11 age- and gender-matched control participants underwent fMRI scanning while performing a face encoding task with online eye-tracking. Results indicate that compared to the control group, individuals with FXS exhibited decreased activation of prefrontal regions associated with complex social cognition, including the medial and superior frontal cortex, during successful face encoding. Further, the FXS and control groups showed significantly different relationships between measures of social anxiety (including gaze-fixation) and brain activity during face encoding. These data indicate that social anxiety in FXS may be related to the inability to successfully recruit higher level social cognition regions during the initial phases of memory formation.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.08.009

Cites

88 of 88 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Holsen et al. reported decreased cingulate and left insula activation in individuals with FXS in response to images of familiar fearful faces and inverse relations between social anxiety and activation in a number of regions, including a cluster in the left inferior frontal gyrus near the insula.

    “Holsen et al. [722] reported decreased cingulate and left insula activation in individuals with FXS in response to images of familiar fearful faces and inverse relations between social anxiety and activation in a number of regions, including a cluster in the left inferior frontal gyrus near the insula.”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

2 of the 90 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Holsen, L. M., Dalton, K. M., Johnstone, T., & Davidson, R. J.
Affiliations
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
  • University of Wisconsin System (US)
Corresponding author
Holsen, Laura M.
Venue
NeuroImage
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-11
Volume
43
Issue
3
Pages
592-604
ISSN
1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2138859764
Cited by
56
References
90
Citations by year
2025: 4 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 5
FWCI
1.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32 HD 07489, P30HD03352., P30HD003352, T32HD007489)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
Keywords
fragile X syndrome, social anxiety, face encoding, social cognition, prefrontal cortex, medial frontal cortex, superior frontal cortex, gaze aversion, visual fixation, memory formation, neural circuit dysfunction
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Anxiety, Brain Mapping, Face, Female, Fragile X Syndrome, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Memory, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Social Behavior, Social Behavior Disorders, Prefrontal Cortex

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review