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ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2018

Brain Connectivity and Neuroimaging of Social Networks in Autism.

Ralph-Axel Müller, Inna Fishman

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Review in Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
75citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

75 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 140 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Multisession tDCS combined with intrastimulation training improves emotion recognition in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024
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  6. Cortical Network Overconnectivity Relates to Sensory, Cognitive, and Social Dimensions in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
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  11. Effects of LEGOBrain sciences · 2026
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  19. Characterizing the Relationship Among the Social Competence Elements in Autistic Adolescents.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025
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15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ralph-Axel MüllerBrain Development Imaging Laboratories, SDSU Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA. Electronic address: rmueller@sdsu.edu.
Inna FishmanBrain Development Imaging Laboratories, SDSU Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
San Diego State University · US

Funding

The Autistic Brain Over 45: The Anatomic, Functional, and Cognitive PhenotypeR01MH103494 · NIMH · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CARPER, RUTH, MUELLER, RALPH-AXEL · 2015 to 2025
$7.0M
Integrity and Dynamic Processing Efficiency of Networks in ASDR01MH101173 · NIMH · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MUELLER, RALPH-AXEL · 2014 to 2018
$3.2M
Multimodal Imaging of Early Neural Signature in Autism Spectrum DisorderR01MH107802 · NIMH · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI FISHMAN, INNA · 2015 to 2021
$2.6M
Linking Local Activity and Functional Connectivity in AutismR01MH081023 · NIMH · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MUELLER, RALPH-AXEL · 2009 to 2013
$1.9M
Multimodal Imaging of Social Brain Networks in ASDK01MH097972 · NIMH · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI FISHMAN, INNA · 2012 to 2015
$599k
NIMH NIH HHS K01 MH097972NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH081023NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH101173NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH103494NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH107802
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Impairments in social communication (SC) predominate among the core diagnostic features of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Neuroimaging has revealed numerous findings of atypical activity and connectivity of 'social brain' networks, yet no consensus view on crucial developmental causes of SC deficits has emerged. Aside from methodological challenges, the deeper problem concerns the clinical label of ASD. While genetic studies have not comprehensively explained the causes of nonsyndromic ASDs, they highlight that the clinical label encompasses many etiologically different disorders. The question of how potential causes and etiologies converge onto a comparatively narrow set of SC deficits remains. Only neuroimaging designs searching for subtypes within ASD cohorts (rather than conventional group level designs) can provide translationally informative answers.

Indexed as

ConnectomeSocial BehaviorSocial PerceptionAutism Spectrum DisorderHumansNerve Netautismheterogeneitynetwork connectivityneuroimagingsocial brain

Identifiers

PMID30391214
PMCPMC7080636
OpenAlexW2898879724

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