Neural bases of gaze and emotion processing in children with autism spectrum disorders.

"This work was supported by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [PO1 HD035470 to MS]; and the National Alliance for Autism Research [to MD] and Autism Speaks [to SYB]. The contents of this work are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NICHD. For generous support the authors also wish to thank the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development, Brain Mapping Medical Research Organization, Brain Mapping Support Foundation, Pierson-Lovelace Foundation, Ahmanson Foundation, Tamkin Foundation, Jennifer Jones-Simon Foundation, Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation, Robson Family, William M. and Linda R. Dietel Philanthropic Fund at the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, and Northstar Fund. Finally, the authors would like to acknowledge the invaluable contributions of research assistants Stephanny Cox, James Earhart, Johanna Mussey, and Nuri Reyes (for recruitment and testing), and colleagues Dara Ghahremani, Ph.D., and A. Ting Wang, Ph.D. (for technical, fMRI scanning, and data analysis assistance), without whose help the successful completion of this study would not have been possible."