ArticleTranslational psychiatry2019
Functional EEG connectivity in infants associates with later restricted and repetitive behaviours in autism; a replication study.
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- Presymptomatic Biological, Structural, and Functional Diagnostic Biomarkers of Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of neurochemistry · 2025Pooled it
- The Value of Brain Imaging and Electrophysiological Testing for Early Screening of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- EEG signatures of cognitive and social development of preschool children-a systematic review.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- Distinct Temporal Stages of Infant Brain Processing Associate With Early Versus Later Autism Diagnosis.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Functional connectivity in infants' visual cortex and its links to motion processing and autism.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Parent-mediated early intervention in infants and toddlers at elevated likelihood for autism: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- The association between infant EEG aperiodic exponent and the trajectory of restricted and repetitive behaviors for toddlers with and without autism.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2025Article
- Leveraging AI-Driven Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Early Detection and Social Function Prediction in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children: Early Signs and Therapeutic Interventions.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Neonatal brain dynamic functional connectivity in term and preterm infants and its association with early childhood neurodevelopment.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Evaluating early EEG correlates of restricted and repetitive behaviors for toddlers with or without autism.Research square · 2024Article
- Interest paradigm for early identification of autism spectrum disorder: an analysis from electroencephalography combined with eye tracking.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Classification of autism spectrum disorder using electroencephalography in Chinese children: a cross-sectional retrospective study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- A Developmental Social Neuroscience Perspective on Infant Autism Interventions.Annual review of developmental psychology · 2023Article
- EEG functional connectivity in infants at elevated familial likelihood for autism spectrum disorder.Molecular autism · 2023Article
- Stability, change, and reliable individual differences in electroencephalography measures: A lifespan perspective on progress and opportunities.NeuroImage · 2023Review
- Prediction of autism in infants: progress and challenges.The Lancet. Neurology · 2023Review
- Energy-Efficient EEG-Based Scheme for Autism Spectrum Disorder Detection Using Wearable Sensors.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Task-based functional neuroimaging in infants: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Identification of diagnostic markers for ASD: a restrictive interest analysis based on EEG combined with eye tracking.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
We conducted a replication study of our prior report that increased alpha EEG connectivity at 14-months associates with later autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis, and dimensional variation in restricted interests/repetitive behaviours. 143 infants at high and low familial risk for ASD watched dynamic videos of spinning toys and women singing nursery rhymes while high-density EEG was recorded. Alpha functional connectivity (7-8 Hz) was calculated using the debiased weighted phase lag index. The final sample with clean data included low-risk infants (N = 20), and high-risk infants who at 36 months showed either typical development (N = 47), atypical development (N = 21), or met criteria for ASD (N = 13). While we did not replicate the finding that global EEG connectivity associated with ASD diagnosis, we did replicate the association between higher functional connectivity at 14 months and greater severity of restricted and repetitive behaviours at 36 months in infants who met criteria for ASD. We further showed that this association is strongest for the circumscribed interests subdomain. We propose that structural and/or functional abnormalities in frontal-striatal circuits underlie the observed association. This is the first replicated infant neural predictor of dimensional variation in later ASD symptoms.
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