Facial Expression

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Common Polymorphism in a Williams Syndrome Gene Predicts Amygdala Reactivity and Extraversion in Healthy Adults. 
  • A meta-analysis of mentalizing impairments in adults with schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder. 
  • A susceptibility gene for affective disorders and the response of the human amygdala. 
  • Abnormal functional connectivity in autism spectrum disorders during face processing. 
  • Activity in medial prefrontal cortex during cognitive evaluation of threatening stimuli as a function of personality style. 
  • Acute 5-HT reuptake blockade potentiates human amygdala reactivity. 
  • Affective context interferes with cognitive control in unipolar depression: an fMRI investigation. 
  • Age differences in recognition of emotion in lexical stimuli and facial expressions. 
  • Alcoholism and judgments of affective stimuli. 
  • Altered Dynamics of the fMRI Response to Faces in Individuals with Autism. 
  • Amygdala activation during emotion processing of neutral faces in children with severe mood dysregulation versus ADHD or bipolar disorder. 
  • Amygdala activation to sad pictures during high-field (4 tesla) functional magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Amygdala reactivity to sad faces in preschool children: An early neural marker of persistent negative affect. 
  • An oxytocin receptor polymorphism predicts amygdala reactivity and antisocial behavior in men. 
  • Association between amygdala reactivity and a dopamine transporter gene polymorphism. 
  • Association between amygdala response to emotional faces and social anxiety in autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Association between depression severity and amygdala reactivity during sad face viewing in depressed preschoolers: an fMRI study. 
  • Associations between serotonin transporter gene promoter region (5-HTTLPR) polymorphism and gaze bias for emotional information. 
  • Attention bias toward threat in pediatric anxiety disorders. 
  • Automatic Recognition of Posed Facial Expression of Emotion in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Averaging facial expression over time. 
  • Behavioral assessment of head and neck cancer pain. 
  • Body orientation and face orientation: two factors controlling apes' behavior from humans. 
  • Brain activity associated with omission of an aversive event reveals the effects of fear learning and generalization. 
  • Brief report: face configuration accuracy and processing speed among adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Catechol O-methyltransferase val158met genotype and neural mechanisms related to affective arousal and regulation. 
  • Computer Face Scale for measuring pediatric pain and mood. 
  • Constructing emotion categorization: Insights from developmental psychology applied to a young adult sample. 
  • Contemporary solutions for the treatment of facial nerve paralysis. 
  • Correlation of pain behavior and muscle activity in patients with myofascial pain-dysfunction syndrome. 
  • Daily verbal and nonverbal expression of osteoarthritis pain and spouse responses. 
  • Development of an observation method for assessing pain behavior in rheumatoid arthritis patients. 
  • Development of behaviors in preterm infants: relation to sleeping and waking. 
  • Development of emotional facial recognition in late childhood and adolescence. 
  • Developmental changes in infants' categorization of anger and disgust facial expressions. 
  • Developmental trajectories of cortical-subcortical interactions underlying the evaluation of trust in adolescence. 
  • Dextroamphetamine modulates the response of the human amygdala. 
  • Differential patterns of initial and sustained responses in amygdala and cortical regions to emotional stimuli in schizophrenia patients and healthy participants. 
  • Direct observation of pain behavior in low back pain patients during physical examination. 
  • Discriminating signs: perceptual precursors to acquiring a visual-gestural language. 
  • Disrupted amygdala reactivity in depressed 4- to 6-year-old children. 
  • Dissociating the neural correlates of item and context memory: an ERP study of face recognition. 
  • Dopamine modulates the response of the human amygdala: a study in Parkinson's disease. 
  • Dynamic perception of facial affect and identity in the human brain. 
  • Early Postoperative Complications following Gracilis Free Muscle Transfer for Facial Reanimation: A Systematic Review and Pooled Data Analysis. 
  • Early event-related potentials to emotional faces differ for adults with autism spectrum disorder and by serotonin transporter genotype. 
  • Early intervention and brain plasticity in autism. 
  • Effects of HTR1A C(-1019)G on amygdala reactivity and trait anxiety. 
  • Emotion identification across adulthood using the Dynamic FACES database of emotional expressions in younger, middle aged, and older adults. 
  • Emotion recognition and social/role dysfunction in non-clinical psychosis. 
  • Emotional task management: neural correlates of switching between affective and non-affective task-sets. 
  • Event-related potentials of recognizing happy and neutral faces. 
  • Event-related potentials reveal temporal staging of dynamic facial expression and gaze shift effects on attentional orienting. 
  • Evidence that altered amygdala activity in schizophrenia is related to clinical state and not genetic risk. 
  • Extreme hyperimmunoglobulinemia E and undue susceptibility to infection. 
  • Facial expression and the affective component of cynical hostility in male coronary heart disease patients. 
  • Facial expressions and EEG in infants of intrusive and withdrawn mothers with depressive symptoms. 
  • Facial expressions of emotion and psychopathology in adolescent boys. 
  • Facial expressions of emotion reveal neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responses. 
  • Facial expressions of emotion reveal neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responses. 
  • Feature-based representations of emotional facial expressions in the human amygdala. 
  • Frontal electroencephalographic correlates of individual differences in emotion expression in infants: a brain systems perspective on emotion. 
  • Frontal lobe activity and affective behavior of infants of mothers with depressive symptoms. 
  • Garner interference reveals dependencies between emotional expression and gaze in face perception. 
  • Gender differences in facial expression recognition in survivors of pediatric brain tumors. 
  • Generalization of conditioned fear along a dimension of increasing fear intensity. 
  • Genetic variants affecting the neural processing of human facial expressions: evidence using a genome-wide functional imaging approach. 
  • Genetic variation in MAOA modulates ventromedial prefrontal circuitry mediating individual differences in human personality. 
  • Genetic variation in human NPY expression affects stress response and emotion. 
  • HPA axis genetic variation, pubertal status, and sex interact to predict amygdala and hippocampus responses to negative emotional faces in school-age children. 
  • Heightened sensitivity to facial expressions of emotion in borderline personality disorder. 
  • Hemodynamic signals of mixed messages during a social exchange. 
  • Hypervigilance for fear after basolateral amygdala damage in humans. 
  • Impact of sleep quality on amygdala reactivity, negative affect, and perceived stress. 
  • Individual differences in typical reappraisal use predict amygdala and prefrontal responses. 
  • Interaction between trait anxiety and trait anger predict amygdala reactivity to angry facial expressions in men but not women. 
  • Investigating the relation between imagery and perception: evidence from face priming. 
  • Is believing seeing? The role of emotion-related beliefs in selective attention to affective cues. 
  • Late Positive Potential ERP Responses to Social and Nonsocial Stimuli in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Linkages between facial expressions of anger and transient myocardial ischemia in men with coronary artery disease. 
  • Measures of hostility as predictors of facial affect during social interaction: evidence for construct validity. 
  • Modulating emotional responses: effects of a neocortical network on the limbic system. 
  • Mood alters amygdala activation to sad distractors during an attentional task. 
  • Neural Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation in Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Neural bases of different cognitive strategies for facial affect processing in schizophrenia. 
  • Neural correlates of facial affect processing in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Neural substrates for processing task-irrelevant sad images in adolescents. 
  • Neurocognitive and electrophysiological evidence of altered face processing in parents of children with autism: implications for a model of abnormal development of social brain circuitry in autism. 
  • Neurocognitive mechanisms of gaze-expression interactions in face processing and social attention. 
  • Nonverbal display of emotion in public and in private: self-monitoring, personality, and expressive cues. 
  • Nursing care and the development of sleeping and waking behaviors in preterm infants. 
  • Orbitofrontal and hippocampal contributions to memory for face-name associations: the rewarding power of a smile. 
  • Pediatric nurses' use of behaviors to make medication administration decisions in infants recovering from surgery. 
  • Peering into the brain to predict behavior: Peer-reported, but not self-reported, conscientiousness links threat-related amygdala activity to future problem drinking. 
  • Perception of dynamic changes in facial affect and identity in autism. 
  • Perspective-taking ability and its relationship to the social behavior of autistic children. 
  • Postoperative Pain Management in Children of Hispanic Origin: A Descriptive Cohort Study. 
  • Potential neural embedding of parental social standing. 
  • Prefabricated neck expanded skin flap with the superficial temporal vessels for facial resurfacing. 
  • Preferential amygdala reactivity to the negative assessment of neutral faces. 
  • Prefrontal mechanisms for executive control over emotional distraction are altered in major depression. 
  • Pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy and pyridoxine phosphate oxidase deficiency: unique clinical symptoms and non-specific EEG characteristics. 
  • Quantifying deficits in the perception of fear and anger in morphed facial expressions after bilateral amygdala damage. 
  • Reduced amygdala response in youths with disruptive behavior disorders and psychopathic traits: decreased emotional response versus increased top-down attention to nonemotional features. 
  • Reflections on stillness: mothers' reactions to the still-face situation. 
  • Salivary testosterone and a trinucleotide (CAG) length polymorphism in the androgen receptor gene predict amygdala reactivity in men. 
  • Sequential ordering of morphed faces and facial expressions following temporal lobe damage. 
  • Serotonin transporter genetic variation and the response of the human amygdala. 
  • Social functioning and facial expression recognition in children with neurofibromatosis type 1. 
  • Social functioning and facial expression recognition in survivors of pediatric brain tumors. 
  • Somatosensory Representations Link the Perception of Emotional Expressions and Sensory Experience. 
  • Speed and accuracy of facial expression classification in avoidant personality disorder: a preliminary study. 
  • Stimulus-Driven Attention, Threat Bias, and Sad Bias in Youth with a History of an Anxiety Disorder or Depression. 
  • Structural-functional correlations between hippocampal volume and cortico-limbic emotional responses in depressed children. 
  • Testosterone rapidly increases neural reactivity to threat in healthy men: a novel two-step pharmacological challenge paradigm. 
  • Testosterone responses to competition predict decreased trust ratings of emotionally neutral faces. 
  • The NIMH Child Emotional Faces Picture Set (NIMH-ChEFS): a new set of children's facial emotion stimuli. 
  • The Relationship Between Early Neural Responses to Emotional Faces at Age 3 and Later Autism and Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescents with Autism. 
  • The amygdala response to emotional stimuli: a comparison of faces and scenes. 
  • The chameleon effect: the perception-behavior link and social interaction. 
  • The effect of context processing on different aspects of social cognition in schizophrenia. 
  • The effect of emotional context on facial emotion ratings in schizophrenia. 
  • The effects of antipsychotic medications on emotion perception in patients with chronic schizophrenia in the CATIE trial. 
  • The fulfillment of others' needs elevates children's body posture. 
  • The role of face familiarity in eye tracking of faces by individuals with autism spectrum disorders. 
  • The role of frontal lobe functioning in the development of infant self-regulatory behavior. 
  • Threat-related amygdala activity is associated with peripheral CRP concentrations in men but not women. 
  • Toddlers' understanding of peers' emotions. 
  • Twelve-month-olds point to share attention and interest. 
  • Understanding the nature of face processing impairment in autism: insights from behavioral and electrophysiological studies. 
  • Validity of pain behaviors in persons with mild to moderate cognitive impairment. 
  • What lies beneath the face of aggression? 
  • Where is the love? The social aspects of mimicry. 
  • Young children with autism show atypical brain responses to fearful versus neutral facial expressions of emotion. 
  • fMRI evidence of neural abnormalities in the subcortical face processing system in ASD. 
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  Keywords of People

  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology