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Tag: brain imaging

May 2023
Illustration of a watch with the face taken up by an MRI scan of a brain.

Ruth Carper: Imaging the aging brain in autistic adults

by  /  19 May 2023

Few studies have tracked how brain structure and function change across adulthood in people with autism. Carper and her colleagues are collecting data to fill this gap.

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Images from structural, functional and diffusion MRI scans.

Dataset maps connectivity in 40,000 brains

by  /  15 May 2023

The new resource aims to aid reproducibility in imaging research.

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Research image of zebrafish forebrains.

Autism-related genes converge on microglia and dopamine in zebrafish

by  /  12 May 2023

The findings add to the growing evidence that genes with disparate functions can play similar roles in brain development.

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Illustration of a brain.

Cortical differences in autism vary by sex

by  /  4 May 2023

Compared with their non-autistic peers, young autistic girls have a thicker cortex that thins more quickly with age.

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April 2023
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Imaging journal editors resign over ‘extreme’ open-access fees

by  /  19 April 2023

The editors intend to start a new nonprofit journal.

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Illustration of hybrid objects: part light bulb, part lab vial, some in blue and some in red to signify null and replicated results.

Null and Noteworthy: Reader response; cerebrospinal fluid; connectivity subgroups

by  /  18 April 2023

In this edition of Null and Noteworthy, researchers upend early interventions and diagnostic boundaries.

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Research image of cortical structures in mice.

Autism-linked mutations scramble nascent cortical circuits

by  /  17 April 2023

By imaging and recording synaptic activity in living mouse embryos for the first time, new research reveals previously unknown patterns of development and hints at how those patterns are disrupted in autism.

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March 2023
Research illustration of three brain diagrams.

Brain connectivity, behavior flag four autism subtypes

by  /  31 March 2023

A machine-learning technique applied to brain imaging data appears to predict a person’s mix of verbal intelligence, social affect and repetitive behaviors.

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Research diagram of brains viewed from overhead and in profile.

Brain signatures of rare variants hint at cardiovascular risk

by  /  24 March 2023

People whose brains look like those of people who carry autism-linked copy number variants also share markers of heart health.

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MRI scan with a section enlarged to display the scan's grey-white boundary.

Brain imaging do-over offers clues to field’s replication problem

by  /  13 March 2023

Methodological choices and study-site artifacts confounded an attempt to replicate findings in support of an autism brain-imaging biomarker, according to new unpublished work.

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