An MRI study of emotional processing deficits in childhood

识别和处理他人情绪的能力是健康社交的基础。行为障碍的孩子有冷酷和不情绪化的特点，很难识别恐惧的表情，可能是因为缺乏注意的线索，如面部表情，健康的人自然会注意。这项研究将使用神经成像来确定，如果他们的目光被重新定向到情绪的面部线索，大脑活动是否会发生变化，看起来更像典型的发育中的儿童。

The ability to recognise and process emotions in other people is fundamental to healthy social interactions. Conduct disordered children with callous and unemotional traits have difficulty recognizing fearful expressions, possibly due to lack of attention to cues such as facial expressions that healthy people naturally attend to. This study will use neuroimaging to determine if brain activity changes to look more like typically developing children if their gaze is redirected to facial cues of emotion.