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onset of pathology? Grainne Mary McAlonan 1 , Vinci Cheung 1 , Charlton Cheung 1 , TP Ho 2 ,
Siew Eng Chua 2 , 1 University of Hong Kong, China; 2 Queen Mary Hospital
Neurodevelopmental disorders have abnormalities across brain networks. Reciprocal afferentation
of brain regions established in utero gives mutually trophic support, thus their volumes should
positively correlate. We predicted children with autism or ADHD would have disrupted network
connectivity reflected by less positive correlation coefficients between regions of grey matter
abnormality. This was true for autism, but despite regional grey matter reductions, children with
ADHD retained a pattern of positive frontostriatal intercorrelations similar to controls. Therefore
initial neuropathology in autism may arise earlier in fetal life than ADHD. The implications for
assessing aetiological impact of postnatal events upon each condition are discussed.
2028.154 The Evolution of brain activation along with processes of motor recovery after stroke: A
fMRI study, Yang Jiao 1 , Xuchu Weng 1 , Xiandong Zhang 2 , Lijun Zhang 2 , 1 Institute of
Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2 Daqing General Hospital, China
Purpose: To investigate the neural mechanism for motor recovery after stroke. Methods: Eight
infraction patients were scanned within different time point after stroke using fMRI during a
passive motor task. Functional outcome was measured using neurophysiology scales meanwhile.
Results: There are widespread passive task-induced activation in bilateral hemisphere early after
stroke. These regions undergo a progressive reduction and finally focus on the ipsilesional
hemisphere accompanying by motor recovery. Conclusions: The activation pattern after stroke
presents a dynamic evolution along with the function recovery processes. The mechanism
underlying recovery of motor abilities due to enhanced activity in preexisting network.
2029 Keynote
Chair: Kan Zhang, China
States of mind: Political systems as implicit theories of psychology, Diane F. Halpern, Berger
Institute for Work, Family, and Children, Claremont McKenna College, USA
Plitical systems are, at their heart, psychological theories. They are theories of motivation,
personality, mental health, human development, education, and social interaction -- topics that are
the very life blood of psychology. Sociopolitical context is a strong determinant of the way in
which psychology develops, the way and type of data that are collected, and the way data are
interpreted to support or refute hypotheses. Despite obvious differences created by sociopolitical
contexts and the use of different research paradigms, commonalities among people in different
regions of the world are often more apparent than differences. Thchnological advances are
shrinking the world, making a psychology that embraces all people a goal that is worth pursuing.
2030 Keynote
Chair: Kurt Pawlik, Germany
Automatic processes in the capture of attention and activation of emotion, Arne Öhman,
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Emotions give value to stimuli. For some classes of stimuli, this occurs quite automatically with
minimal involvement of advanced cognition. Threatening animals such as snakes or spiders are
quickly located in an array of stimuli regardless of the number of distractors, particularly by
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