Autistic and non-autistic individuals show the same amygdala activity during emotional face processing.
Benedikt P LangenbachDominik GrotegerdPeter C R MuldersIndira TendolkarJasper van OortFleur DuyserPhilip van EijndhovenJanna N VrijsenUdo DannlowskiZarah KampmannKatja KoelkebeckPublished in: Molecular autism (2024)
Our results challenge the view that autistic and non-autistic processing of emotional faces in the amygdala is vastly different and call for a more nuanced view of differences between non-autistic and autistic emotion processing.