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- Both autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and anxiety disorders show different neural and attentional responses to emotional faces compared to typically developing peers.
- A study with children diagnosed with ASD found that how they responded to emotional faces at an early age could predict their social communication skills and anxiety levels later in life.
- Specifically, stronger responses to fearful faces were linked to ongoing social difficulties, while quicker responses to neutral faces indicated better improvement and lower severity of ASD and anxiety symptoms as they grew older.
Article 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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