Functional and Dysfunctional Brain Circuits Underlying Emotional Processing of Music in Autism Spectrum Disorders Study by Andrea Caria, Paola Venuti, and Simona de Falco Despite a wide range of abilities and disabilities among people on the Autism Spectrum, a few core features of the disability are dramatic impairments of interpersonal behavior, communication, and empathy. Behavioral studies on ASD have documented difficulties in the recognition of facial expressions of emotions and emotional prosody. More recently, neuroimaging studies have enabled researchers to explore what is happening in the brain, as well as the physical structure of the brain itself. However, most neuroimaging studies have observed atypical brain responses in individuals with…