Training-induced plasticity of the social brain in autism spectrum disorder

Sven Bölte¹, Angela Ciaramidaro², Sabine Schlitt²+6

• ¹Sven Bölte, Prof, PhD, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany; Angela Ciaramidaro, PhD, Sabine Schlitt, PhD, Daniela Hainz, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany; Dorit Kliemann, PhD, Cluster of Excellence 'Languages of Emotion' and Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; Fritz Poustka, MD, PhD, Anke Beyer, PhD, Christine Freitag, MD, PhD, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany; Henrik Walter, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Germany sven.bolte@ki.se.+1