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Differential brain responses to cries of infants with autistic disorder and typical development: an fMRI study

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Venuti, Paola, Caria, Andrea, Esposito, Gianluca, De Pisapia, Nicola, Bornstein, Marc H., de Falco, Simona·2012·Research in Developmental Disabilities

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This study used fMRI to measure brain activity during adult processing of cries of infants with autistic disorder (AD) compared to cries of typically developing (TD) infants. Using whole brain analysis, we found that cries of infants with AD compared to those of TD infants elicited enhanced activity in brain regions associated with verbal and prosodic processing, perhaps because altered acoustic patterns of AD cries render them especially difficult to interpret, and increased activity in brain regions associated with emotional processing, indicating that AD cries also elicit more negative feelings and may be perceived as more aversive and/or arousing. Perceived distress engendered by AD cries related to increased activation in brain regions associated with emotional processing. This study supports the hypothesis that cry is an early and meaningful anomaly displayed by children with AD. It could be that cries associated with AD alter parent-child interactions much earlier than the time that reliable AD diagnosis normally occurs.

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Authors
Venuti, P., Caria, A., Esposito, G., De Pisapia, N., Bornstein, M. H., & de Falco, S.
Affiliations
  • University of Trento (IT)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
Venuti, Paola
Venue
Research in Developmental Disabilities
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-11
Volume
33
Issue
6
Pages
2255-2264
ISSN
0891-4222 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2070760745
Cited by
48
References
83
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FWCI
2.13
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Research in Developmental Disabilities (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento) (submittedVersion)
Funders
NIH, NICHD
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Pharmacy › Infant Health and Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, infant crying, auditory processing, prosodic processing, emotional processing, perceived distress, parent-child interaction, early detection of autism, brain activity
MeSH terms
Adult, Arousal, Attitude, Auditory Perception, Autistic Disorder, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Crying, Dominance, Cerebral, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Infant, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Sound Spectrography, Temporal Lobe, Thalamus

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