ArticleTranslational psychiatry2020
Emotional face processing across neurodevelopmental disorders: a dynamic faces study in children with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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- Systematic Review: Convergence and Divergence Between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Genetic, Neuroimaging, and Cognitive Findings.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Shared and Specific Neural Correlates of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of 243 Task-Based Functional MRI Studies.The American journal of psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Establishing the Relationship Between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Emotional Facial Expression Recognition Deficit: A Systematic Review.Journal of attention disorders · 2023Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Sensory-Motor Integration Exercises on Social Skills and Motor Performance in Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Trial
- Transdiagnostic Neurobiology of Social Cognition and Individual Variability as Measured by Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuation in Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026Article
- Multi-View Analysis of Facial Expressions in Minimally Verbal Autism: Preliminary Evidence From Social Communication Observations.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Immune dysregulation in pediatric tic disorders: mechanisms, biomarkers, and therapeutic frontiers.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Neuroimaging Evidence of Facial Emotion Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Studies.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Somatosensory false feedback biases emotional ratings through interoceptive embodiment.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Co-design of the neurodevelopment assessment scale.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Cortical hemodynamic responses and deep learning models of emotional face processing in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder: a fNIRS study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Functional brain network alterations in the co-occurrence of autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Investigating heterogeneity across autism, ADHD, and typical development using measures of cortical thickness, surface area, cortical/subcortical volume, and structural covariance.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Atypical oscillatory dynamics during emotional face processing in paediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder with MEG.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2023Article
- Early Neuro-Psychomotor Therapy Intervention for Theory of Mind and Emotion Recognition in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Pilot Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Therapeutic applications of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation with potential for application in neurodevelopmental or other pediatric disorders.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Review
- Shared and Distinct Patterns of Functional Connectivity to Emotional Faces in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Children.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Challenges Surrounding the Diagnosis of Autism in Children.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2021Review
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Abstract
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is classically associated with poor face processing skills, yet evidence suggests that those with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) also have difficulties understanding emotions. We determined the neural underpinnings of dynamic emotional face processing across these three clinical paediatric groups, including developmental trajectories, compared with typically developing (TD) controls. We studied 279 children, 5-19 years of age but 57 were excluded due to excessive motion in fMRI, leaving 222: 87 ASD, 44 ADHD, 42 OCD and 49 TD. Groups were sex- and age-matched. Dynamic faces (happy, angry) and dynamic flowers were presented in 18 pseudo-randomized blocks while fMRI data were collected with a 3T MRI. Group-by-age interactions and group difference contrasts were analysed for the faces vs. flowers and between happy and angry faces. TD children demonstrated different activity patterns across the four contrasts; these patterns were more limited and distinct for the NDDs. Processing happy and angry faces compared to flowers yielded similar activation in occipital regions in the NDDs compared to TDs. Processing happy compared to angry faces showed an age by group interaction in the superior frontal gyrus, increasing with age for ASD and OCD, decreasing for TDs. Children with ASD, ADHD and OCD differentiated less between dynamic faces and dynamic flowers, with most of the effects seen in the occipital and temporal regions, suggesting that emotional difficulties shared in NDDs may be partly attributed to shared atypical visual information processing.
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