Understanding emotions in others: mirror neuron dysfunction in children with autism spectrum disorders

By Mirella Dapretto, M. S. Davies, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, A. Scott, M. Sigman, Susan Y. Bookheimer, Marco Iacoboni. Nature Neuroscience, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Vision in autism spectrum disorders. (2009, background): “Key papers on this topic, in chronological order, are: Williams, Whiten, Suddendorf, and Perrett (2001), Oberman et al. (2005), Dapretto et al. (2006), Iacaboni and Dapretto (2006), Oberman, Ramachandran, and Pineda (2008), Southgate and Hamilton (2008), Oberman and Ramachandran (2008).”
Predictive coding: an account of the mirror neuron system (2007, background): “Impairments of this ability can lead to major developmental and psychiatric disorders such as autism (Dapretto et al. 2006; Oberman et al. 2005) and”
Long story short: the serotonin transporter in emotion regulation and social cognition (2007, background): “Dysfunction of these cell types may cause social and communication disabilities associated with autistic syndrome”
Biometric Measures for Interactive Advertising Research (2011, background): “This hypothesis has been questioned, though modern research has proven systematically that shifts of attention without eye movement is possible (Posner 1980), and as soon as attention moves to a new position, the eyes follow if they can (Hoffmann 1998).”
Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children (2008, methodology): “…resembles that previously observed in adults (Carr et al., 2003) and, in an independent sample, replicates the first demonstration of mirror neuron-like responses in classical mirror areas during the observation and imitation of facial emotional expressions in children (Dapretto et al., 2006).”
Beware the angry leader: Trait anger and trait anxiety as predictors of petty tyranny ☆ (2013, background): “Notably these mirror mechanisms are also shown to be involved in the “remarkable ability to read others' emotional states from a mere glance at their faces” (Dapretto et al., 2006, p. 30).”
Being Together in Time: Musical Experience and the Mirror Neuron System (2009, background): “More recent neuroimaging findings show that children with autism have virtually no activity within the MNS, clearly linking their social isolation to a neural system important for understanding the intentions, actions, and emotions of others (Dapretto et al., 2006).”
How children with autism look at events (2009, positive): “Dapretto et al. (2006) showed that the activity in the inferior frontal gurus (an area involved in the MNS) of the children diagnosed with autism, was inversely related to symptom severity in the social domain as measured by ADOS-G (Lord et al., 2000) and ADI-R (Lord, Rutter, & Lecouteur, 1994).”
A Social Work Model of Empathy (2009, background): “Neurologists have discovered some evidence that affective sharing is physically diminished in people with autism (Dapretto et al., 2006; Decety & Moriguchi, 2007).”
Mapping early brain development in autism. (2007, neutral): “Interestingly, these regions include the mirror neuron system, which has been hypothesized by some to be critical in autism (Dapretto et al., 2006; Hadjikhani et al., 2006; Oberman et al., 2005; Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007; Williams et al., 2001, 2006).”
Diffusion tensor imaging of the corpus callosum in Autism (2007, positive): “…autistic children show reduced correlations between morphometry in interconnected frontal and parieto-temporal cortices (McAlonan et al., 2005), a finding that is complemented by abnormalities in the 'mirror neuron system' of autistic individuals recorded during fMRI (Dapretto et al., 2005).”
Brain regions with mirror properties: a meta-analysis of 125 human fMRI studies. (2012, background): “The analysis revealed 14 separate clusters in which activation has been consistently attributed to brain regions with mirror properties, encompassing 9 different Brodmann areas.”
The new neurobiology of autism: cortex, connectivity, and neuronal organization. (2007, background): “Another major fMRI contribution was the report of mirror neuron dysfunction as a potential underlying mechanism for the social-emotional deficits in autism.(23) The mirror neuron system, pars opercularis in the inferior frontal gyrus, is active during the observation, imitation, and understanding of”