Differences in frontotemporal dysfunction during social and non-social cognition tasks between patients with autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 3014 - 10
• Main Authors: Hirata, Keiko, Egashira, Kazuteru, Harada, Kenichiro, Nakashima, Mami, Hirotsu, Masako, Isomura, Shinji, Watanuki, Toshio, Matsubara, Toshio, Kaku, Yoichi, Kaneyuki, Hiroshi, Watanabe, Yoshifumi, Matsuo, Koji
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 14.02.2018; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/699/476/1373; 692/699/476/1799; 692/700/1421/65; Attention; Autism; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive ability; Humanities and Social Sciences; I.R. radiation; Information processing; Infrared spectroscopy; Mental disorders; multidisciplinary; Pattern recognition; Schizophrenia; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Social interactions; Spectrum analysis

Although literature evidence suggests deficits in social and non-social cognition in patients with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia (SCZ), the difference in neural correlates of the impairments between the two disorders has not been elucidated. We examined brain function in respons...