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SUBMITTER: Richey JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3980795 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Richey John A JA Rittenberg Alison A Hughes Lauren L Damiano Cara R CR Sabatino Antoinette A Miller Stephanie S Hanna Eleanor E Bodfish James W JW Dichter Gabriel S GS
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20121207 3
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and social anxiety disorder (SAD) are both characterized by social dysfunction, but no study to date has compared neural responses to social rewards in ASDs and SAD. Neural responses during social and non-social reward anticipation and outcomes were examined in individuals with ASD (n = 16), SAD (n = 15) and a control group (n = 19) via functional magnetic resonance imaging. Analyses modeling all three groups revealed increased nucleus accumbens (NAc) activation ...[more]