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Reduced brain activation during imitation and observation of others in children with pervasive developmental disorder: a pilot study

BACKGROUND: Children with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) are thought to have poor imitation abilities. Recently, this characteristic has been suggested to reflect impairments in mirror neuron systems (MNS). We used near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to examine the brain activity of children w...

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Autores principales: Kajiume, Aiko, Aoyama-Setoyama, Shiori, Saito-Hori, Yuri, Ishikawa, Nobutsune, Kobayashi, Masao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23718943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-9081-9-21