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Variation in the human cannabinoid receptor CNR1 gene modulates gaze duration for happy faces.

Overview of attention for article published in Molecular Autism, June 2011
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Title
Variation in the human cannabinoid receptor CNR1 gene modulates gaze duration for happy faces.
Published in
Molecular Autism, June 2011
DOI 10.1186/2040-2392-2-10
Pubmed ID
21714860
Authors

Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Simon Baron-Cohen, Chakrabarti B, Baron-Cohen S

Abstract

From an early age, humans look longer at preferred stimuli and also typically look longer at facial expressions of emotion, particularly happy faces. Atypical gaze patterns towards social stimuli are common in autism spectrum conditions (ASC). However, it is unknown whether gaze fixation patterns have any genetic basis. In this study, we tested whether variations in the cannabinoid receptor 1 (CNR1) gene are associated with gaze duration towards happy faces. This gene was selected because CNR1 is a key component of the endocannabinoid system, which is involved in processing reward, and in our previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, we found that variations in CNR1 modulate the striatal response to happy (but not disgust) faces. The striatum is involved in guiding gaze to rewarding aspects of a visual scene. We aimed to validate and extend this result in another sample using a different technique (gaze tracking).

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
United States 2 2%
Germany 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Unknown 116 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 23 18%
Student > Master 20 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 12%
Student > Bachelor 15 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 10%
Other 28 22%
Unknown 12 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 38 30%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 10%
Neuroscience 12 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 6%
Other 24 19%
Unknown 20 16%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 June 2017.
All research outputs
#1,848,895
of 22,649,029 outputs
Outputs from Molecular Autism
#188
of 660 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,735
of 115,550 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Molecular Autism
#2
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