Current Biology
Volume 16, Issue 4, 21 February 2006, Pages R131-R133
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Autism Spectrum Disorder: Seeing Is Not Understanding

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Impairments in social and emotional skills are a defining feature of autism spectrum disorder. Recent research shows that structural and functional abnormalities within the neural system that matches observation and execution of actions — the mirror neuron system — may explain the social aspects of the pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorder.

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