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1. Author Correction: Altered structural brain asymmetry in autism spectrum disorder in a study of 54 datasets

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Merel C. Postema, Daan van Rooij, Evdokia Anagnostou, Celso Arango, Guillaume Auzias, Marlene Behrmann, Geraldo Busatto Filho, Sara Calderoni, Rosa Calvo, Eileen Daly, Christine Deruelle, Adriana Di Martino, Ilan Dinstein, Fabio Luis S. Duran, Sarah Durston, Christine Ecker, Stefan Ehrlich, Damien Fair, Jennifer Fedor, Xin Feng, Jackie Fitzgerald, Dorothea L. Floris, Christine M. Freitag, Louise Gallagher, David C. Glahn, Ilaria Gori, Shlomi Haar, Liesbeth Hoekstra, Neda Jahanshad, Maria Jalbrzikowski, Joost Janssen, Joseph A. King, Xiang Zhen Kong, Luisa Lazaro, Jason P. Lerch, Beatriz Luna, Mauricio M. Martinho, Jane McGrath, Sarah E. Medland, Filippo Muratori, Clodagh M. Murphy, Declan G. M. Murphy, Kirsten O’Hearn, Bob Oranje, Mara Parellada, Olga Puig, Alessandra Retico, Pedro Rosa, Katya Rubia, Devon Shook, Margot J. Taylor, Michela Tosetti, Gregory L. Wallace, Fengfeng Zhou, Paul M. Thompson, Simon E. Fisher, Jan K. Buitelaar, Clyde Francks, Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University [Nijmegen]-Radboud University [Nijmegen], Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital [Toronto, ON, Canada], University of Toronto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid] (UCM), Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salut Mental (CIBER-SAM Network), Hospital Clinic Barcelona, King‘s College London, NYU Langone Medical Center, Utrecht University [Utrecht], MetaGenoPolis (MGP (US 1367)), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Oregon Health and Science University [Portland] (OHSU), School of Management, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU), and Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

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Adult, Male, Adolescent, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Science, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Prefrontal Cortex, General Physics and Astronomy, Gyrus Cinguli, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Young Adult, Humans, Author Correction, Child, Cerebral Cortex, Multidisciplinary, Brain, Organ Size, General Chemistry, Autism spectrum disorders, Middle Aged, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Temporal Lobe, Frontal Lobe, Case-Control Studies, Female, Neuroscience
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Altered structural brain asymmetry in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been reported. However, findings have been inconsistent, likely due to limited sample sizes. Here we investigated 1,774 individuals with ASD and 1,809 controls, from 54 independent data sets of the ENIGMA consortium. ASD was significantly associated with alterations of cortical thickness asymmetry in mostly medial frontal, orbitofrontal, cingulate and inferior temporal areas, and also with asymmetry of orbitofrontal surface area. These differences generally involved reduced asymmetry in individuals with ASD compared to controls. Furthermore, putamen volume asymmetry was significantly increased in ASD. The largest case-control effect size was Cohen's d = -0.13, for asymmetry of superior frontal cortical thickness. Most effects did not depend on age, sex, IQ, severity or medication use. Altered lateralized neurodevelopment may therefore be a feature of ASD, affecting widespread brain regions with diverse functions. Large-scale analysis was necessary to quantify subtle alterations of brain structural asymmetry in ASD.

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2021
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2. Subcortical brain volume, regional cortical thickness, and cortical surface area across disorders:Findings from the ENIGMA ADHD, ASD, and OCD working groups

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Pedro Moreira, Ruth O'Gorman Tuura, Mara Cercignani, Philip Aherson, Maria Jalbrzikowski, Kate D. Fitzgerald, Declan G. Murphy, Bernd Kardatzki, Christine Ecker, David F. Tolin, Fern Jaspers-Fayer, Pedro Morgado, Juan Carlos Soliva Vila, Kang Ik K. Cho, Kathrin Koch, Timothy J. Silk, Philip R. Szeszko, Thomas Frodl, Mara Parellada, Shlomi Haar, Eileen Daly, Bob Oranje, Anouk Schrantee, Leyla Namazova-Baranova, Joseph A. King, Beatriz Luna, Silvia Brem, Eric Earl, Alasdair Vance, Michela Tosetti, Christine Deruelle, Ramona Baur-Streubel, Jackie Fitzgerald, Kirsten O'Hearn, Michael C. Stevens, Yoshiyuki Hirano, J. Antoni Ramos-Quiroga, Erika L. Nurmi, Kaylita Chantiluke, Joseph O'Neill, Kerstin Kohls, Olga Puig, Devon Shook, Clodagh M. Murphy, Gustavo Sudre, Marlene Behrmann, Jaap Oosterlaan, Tinatin Gogberashvili, Lianne Schmaal, Carles Soriano-Mas, Liesbeth Hoekstra, Ignacio Martínez-Zalacaín, Noam Soreni, Marcel P. Zwiers, Paulo Mattos, Gregor Kohls, Andreas J. Fallgatter, Tiffany M. Chaim-Avancini, Alexander Baranov, S. Evelyn Stewart, Sara Dallaspezia, Gianfranco Spalletta, Jonna Kuntsi, Lizanne J. S. Schweren, Joel T. Nigg, Leanne Tamm, Premika S.W. Boedhoe, Adriana Di Martino, Jane McGrath, Marcelo C. Batistuzzo, Norbert Skokauskas, Filippo Muratori, John Piacentini, Jean-Paul Fouche, Sarah Baumeister, Alan Anticevic, Neil A. Harrison, Christine M. Freitag, Pedro G.P. Rosa, Stephen V. Faraone, Ana Cubillo, David Mataix-Cols, Yuki Sakai, Stefan Ehrlich, Eileen Oberwelland Weiss, Fabrizio Piras, Dirk J. Heslenfeld, Je-Yeon Yun, Paul Pauli, Catharina A. Hartman, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, Janardhanan C. Narayanaswamy, Charles B Malpas, Jan C. Beucke, José M. Menchón, Egill A. Fridgeirsson, Margot J. Taylor, Mauricio Moller Martinho, H. Blair Simpson, Jan K. Buitelaar, Gerd Kvale, Ivanei E. Bramati, Aki Tsuchiyagaito, Susanne Walitza, Irene Bollettini, Jeffery N. Epstein, Anders M. Dale, Thomas Ethofer, Terry L. Jernigan, David Coghill, Rachel Marsh, Andreas Reif, Astri J. Lundervold, Pieter J. Hoekstra, Oana Georgiana Rus, Damiaan Denys, Gregory L. Wallace, Matt C. Gabel, Hazel McCarthy, Sarah Hohmann, Rosa Nicolau, Stephanie H. Ameis, Neda Jahanshad, Takashi Nakamae, Xin Feng, Emily R. Stern, Georg G. von Polier, Yanni Liu, Paulo Marques, Anushree Bose, Hao Hu, Sara Lera-Miguel, Deniz A. Gürsel, Jochen Seitz, Jos W. R. Twisk, Mario Rodrigues Louzã, Clare Kelly, Annette Conzelmann, Alysa E. Doyle, Odile A. van den Heuvel, Anthony A. James, Chris Perriello, Joost Janssen, Damien A. Fair, Norbert Kathmann, Francisco X. Castellanos, Paul D. Arnold, Oscar Vilarroya, Geraldo F. Busatto, Federica Piras, Pino Alonso, Akiko Nakagawa, Sarah Durston, Lena Schwarz, Mitul A. Mehta, Dan J. Stein, Celso Arango, Daan van Rooij, Ilan Dinstein, Anastasia Christakou, Klaus-Peter Lesch, Kerstin J. Plessen, Jennifer Fedor, Yolanda Vives-Gilabert, Ilaria Gori, Louise Gallagher, Brian P. Brennan, Yuqi Cheng, Barbara Franke, Sabin Khadka, Stephanie E. Novotny, Martine Hoogman, Georgii Karkashadze, Georg C. Ziegler, Yuliya N. Yoncheva, Rosa Calvo, Thomas Wolfers, Marcelo Q. Hoexter, Benjamin A. Ely, Masaru Kuno, Alessandra Retico, Yoshinari Abe, Geoffrey B. Hall, Tobias Banaschewski, Anatoly Anikin, Christine Lochner, Astrid Morer, Guido van Wingen, Jan Haavik, Joseph Biederman, Luisa Lázaro, Francesco Benedetti, Fengfeng Zhou, Guillaume Auzias, Daniel Brandeis, Dmitry Kapilushniy, Katya Rubia, Philip Shaw, Christian Kaufmann, Sara Calderoni, Marcus V. Zanetti, Anastasia Solovieva, Zhen Wang, Francesca Assogna, Jamie D. Feusner, Chaim Huyser, Fernanda Tovar-Moll, Theo G.M. van Erp, Y.C. Janardhan Reddy, Jun Soo Kwon, Yannis Paloyelis, Anna Calvo, Patricia Gruner, Kathrin C. Zierhut, Liesbeth Reneman, Tomohiro Nakao, Janita Bralten, Marie F. Høvik, Mark A. Bellgrove, Maarten Mennes, Paul M. Thompson, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Epidemiology and Data Science, Pediatric surgery, Radiology and nuclear medicine, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Compulsivity, Impulsivity & Attention, Psychiatry, APH - Methodology, APH - Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases, Boedhoe, Premika S W, van Rooij, Daan, Hoogman, Martine, Twisk, Jos W R, Schmaal, Lianne, Abe, Yoshinari, Alonso, Pino, Ameis, Stephanie H, Anikin, Anatoly, Anticevic, Alan, Arango, Celso, Arnold, Paul D, Asherson, Philip, Assogna, Francesca, Auzias, Guillaume, Banaschewski, Tobia, Baranov, Alexander, Batistuzzo, Marcelo C, Baumeister, Sarah, Baur-Streubel, Ramona, Behrmann, Marlene, Bellgrove, Mark A, Benedetti, Francesco, Beucke, Jan C, Biederman, Joseph, Bollettini, Irene, Bose, Anushree, Bralten, Janita, Bramati, Ivanei E, Brandeis, Daniel, Brem, Silvia, Brennan, Brian P, Busatto, Geraldo F, Calderoni, Sara, Calvo, Anna, Calvo, Rosa, Castellanos, Francisco X, Cercignani, Mara, Chaim-Avancini, Tiffany M, Chantiluke, Kaylita C, Cheng, Yuqi, Cho, Kang Ik K, Christakou, Anastasia, Coghill, David, Conzelmann, Annette, Cubillo, Ana I, Dale, Anders M, Dallaspezia, Sara, Daly, Eileen, Denys, Damiaan, Deruelle, Christine, Di Martino, Adriana, Dinstein, Ilan, Doyle, Alysa E, Durston, Sarah, Earl, Eric A, Ecker, Christine, Ehrlich, Stefan, Ely, Benjamin A, Epstein, Jeffrey N, Ethofer, Thoma, Fair, Damien A, Fallgatter, Andreas J, Faraone, Stephen V, Fedor, Jennifer, Feng, Xin, Feusner, Jamie D, Fitzgerald, Jackie, Fitzgerald, Kate D, Fouche, Jean-Paul, Freitag, Christine M, Fridgeirsson, Egill A, Frodl, Thoma, Gabel, Matt C, Gallagher, Louise, Gogberashvili, Tinatin, Gori, Ilaria, Gruner, Patricia, Gürsel, Deniz A, Haar, Shlomi, Haavik, Jan, Hall, Geoffrey B, Harrison, Neil A, Hartman, Catharina A, Heslenfeld, Dirk J, Hirano, Yoshiyuki, Hoekstra, Pieter J, Hoexter, Marcelo Q, Hohmann, Sarah, Høvik, Marie F, Hu, Hao, Huyser, Chaim, Jahanshad, Neda, Jalbrzikowski, Maria, James, Anthony, Janssen, Joost, Jaspers-Fayer, Fern, Jernigan, Terry L, Kapilushniy, Dmitry, Kardatzki, Bernd, Karkashadze, Georgii, Kathmann, Norbert, Kaufmann, Christian, Kelly, Clare, Khadka, Sabin, King, Joseph A, Koch, Kathrin, Kohls, Gregor, Konrad, Kerstin, Kuno, Masaru, Kuntsi, Jonna, Kvale, Gerd, Kwon, Jun Soo, Lázaro, Luisa, Lera-Miguel, Sara, Lesch, Klaus-Peter, Hoekstra, Liesbeth, Liu, Yanni, Lochner, Christine, Louza, Mario R, Luna, Beatriz, Lundervold, Astri J, Malpas, Charles B, Marques, Paulo, Marsh, Rachel, Martínez-Zalacaín, Ignacio, Mataix-Cols, David, Mattos, Paulo, Mccarthy, Hazel, Mcgrath, Jane, Mehta, Mitul A, Menchón, José M, Mennes, Maarten, Martinho, Mauricio Moller, Moreira, Pedro S, Morer, Astrid, Morgado, Pedro, Muratori, Filippo, Murphy, Clodagh M, Murphy, Declan G M, Nakagawa, Akiko, Nakamae, Takashi, Nakao, Tomohiro, Namazova-Baranova, Leyla, Narayanaswamy, Janardhanan C, Nicolau, Rosa, Nigg, Joel T, Novotny, Stephanie E, Nurmi, Erika L, Weiss, Eileen Oberwelland, O'Gorman Tuura, Ruth L, O'Hearn, Kirsten, O'Neill, Joseph, Oosterlaan, Jaap, Oranje, Bob, Paloyelis, Yanni, Parellada, Mara, Pauli, Paul, Perriello, Chri, Piacentini, John, Piras, Fabrizio, Piras, Federica, Plessen, Kerstin J, Puig, Olga, Ramos-Quiroga, J Antoni, Reddy, Y C Janardhan, Reif, Andrea, Reneman, Liesbeth, Retico, Alessandra, Rosa, Pedro G P, Rubia, Katya, Rus, Oana Georgiana, Sakai, Yuki, Schrantee, Anouk, Schwarz, Lena, Schweren, Lizanne J S, Seitz, Jochen, Shaw, Philip, Shook, Devon, Silk, Tim J, Simpson, H Blair, Skokauskas, Norbert, Soliva Vila, Juan Carlo, Solovieva, Anastasia, Soreni, Noam, Soriano-Mas, Carle, Spalletta, Gianfranco, Stern, Emily R, Stevens, Michael C, Stewart, S Evelyn, Sudre, Gustavo, Szeszko, Philip R, Tamm, Leanne, Taylor, Margot J, Tolin, David F, Tosetti, Michela, Tovar-Moll, Fernanda, Tsuchiyagaito, Aki, van Erp, Theo G M, van Wingen, Guido A, Vance, Alasdair, Venkatasubramanian, Ganesan, Vilarroya, Oscar, Vives-Gilabert, Yolanda, von Polier, Georg G, Walitza, Susanne, Wallace, Gregory L, Wang, Zhen, Wolfers, Thoma, Yoncheva, Yuliya N, Yun, Je-Yeon, Zanetti, Marcus V, Zhou, Fengfeng, Ziegler, Georg C, Zierhut, Kathrin C, Zwiers, Marcel P, Thompson, Paul M, Stein, Dan J, Buitelaar, Jan, Franke, Barbara, van den Heuvel, Odile A, Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE), Clinical Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Research Program (CCNP), Adult Psychiatry, ANS - Compulsivity, Impulsivity & Attention, Graduate School, Child Psychiatry, General Paediatrics, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, APH - Personalized Medicine, and APH - Mental Health

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Male, Research Report, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Frontal cortex, Systems Analysis, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Hippocampal formation, Audiology, 0302 clinical medicine, 130 000 Cognitive Neurology & Memory, Child, Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Intelligence quotient, Psychopathology, ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER, ABNORMALITIES, ENIGMA, Organ Size, 3. Good health, Psychiatry and Mental health, Autism spectrum disorder, Brain size, Cohort, Female, MRI, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, CORTEX, Adolescent, DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER, Human Development, Neuroimaging, behavioral disciplines and activities, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, FIELD-STRENGTH, mental disorders, medicine, MEGA-ANALYSIS, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Humans, Cortical surface, Structural MRI, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Cerebrum, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], business.industry, medicine.disease, 030227 psychiatry, VOXEL, Autism, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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ObjectiveAttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are common neurodevelopmental disorders that frequently co-occur. We aimed to directly compare all three disorders. The ENIGMA consortium is ideally positioned to investigate structural brain alterations across these disorders.MethodsStructural T1-weighted whole-brain MRI of controls (n=5,827) and patients with ADHD (n=2,271), ASD (n=1,777), and OCD (n=2,323) from 151 cohorts worldwide were analyzed using standardized processing protocols. We examined subcortical volume, cortical thickness and surface area differences within a mega-analytical framework, pooling measures extracted from each cohort. Analyses were performed separately for children, adolescents, and adults using linear mixed-effects models adjusting for age, sex and site (and ICV for subcortical and surface area measures).ResultsWe found no shared alterations among all three disorders, while shared alterations between any two disorders did not survive multiple comparisons correction. Children with ADHD compared to those with OCD had smaller hippocampal volumes, possibly influenced by IQ. Children and adolescents with ADHD also had smaller ICV than controls and those with OCD or ASD. Adults with ASD showed thicker frontal cortices compared to adult controls and other clinical groups. No OCD-specific alterations across different age-groups and surface area alterations among all disorders in childhood and adulthood were observed.ConclusionOur findings suggest robust but subtle alterations across different age-groups among ADHD, ASD, and OCD. ADHD-specific ICV and hippocampal alterations in children and adolescents, and ASD-specific cortical thickness alterations in the frontal cortex in adults support previous work emphasizing neurodevelopmental alterations in these disorders.

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2020
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3. Patterns of fixation during face recognition: Differences in autism across age

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Jared DiCicco-Bloom, Jennifer Fedor, Andrew Lynn, Beatriz Luna, Kirsten O'Hearn, and William Foran

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Adult, Male, Adolescent, Eye Movements, Fixation, Ocular, Facial recognition system, Article, Memorization, Developmental psychology, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Group differences, Developmental and Educational Psychology, medicine, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Autistic Disorder, Child, Memory test, Eye Movement Measurements, 05 social sciences, Age Factors, Fixation (psychology), medicine.disease, Gaze, Face, Eye tracking, Autism, Female, Psychology, Facial Recognition, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, 050104 developmental & child psychology
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Difficulties with face recognition increase from adolescence to adulthood in autism, reflecting a lack of typical late development. We examined whether this reflects differences in the development of patterns of fixation to eyes and mouths during face recognition. Children, adolescents, and adults (aged 7–30) with and without autism completed the Cambridge Face Memory Test while gaze was recorded. Average duration and number of fixations were calculated for eyes and mouth regions of interest, defined individually for each face image in the task. All groups and age groups made more and longer fixations to eyes than mouths. However, during face memorization, typically developing children and adults, but not adolescents, made more fixations to eyes than did their peers with autism. During face recognition, typically developing children and adults made shorter fixations on mouths than did their peers with autism; this pattern was reversed in adolescence, with adolescents with autism making more fixations to mouths than typically developing adolescents. Results suggest that group differences in patterns of fixations to faces change with age. Furthermore, different relationships between patterns of fixations and face recognition performance in typical development and autism suggest that these differences contribute, at least in part, to difficulties in autism.

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2017
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4. Representational similarity analysis reveals atypical age-related changes in brain regions supporting face and car recognition in autism

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Beatriz Luna, Jennifer Fedor, Bart Larsen, Kirsten O'Hearn, and Andrew Lynn

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cognitive Neuroscience, Human Development, Temporoparietal junction, Inferior frontal gyrus, Audiology, behavioral disciplines and activities, 050105 experimental psychology, lcsh:RC321-571, Visual processing, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, 0302 clinical medicine, Functional neuroimaging, mental disorders, medicine, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Child, lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, Cerebral Cortex, Fusiform gyrus, Functional Neuroimaging, 05 social sciences, Age Factors, Fusiform face area, medicine.disease, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, medicine.anatomical_structure, Neurology, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Social Perception, Autism spectrum disorder, Autism, Female, Psychology, Facial Recognition, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Background Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is associated with atypical activation in the ventral stream during face processing. The current study further characterizes the development of face processing in ASD using a multivoxel pattern analysis, which assesses the similarity in the representation of exemplars from the same category. Methods Ninety-two children, adolescents and adults - with and without ASD - performed the Cambridge Face Memory Test, the Australian Face Memory Test, and a matched car memory test. Regions of interest during these tasks included Fusiform Face Area (FFA), based on the literature, and additional, structurally-defined regions in the ventral stream. Group differences in the patterns of activity within these ROIs when memorizing exemplars were examined using a representational similarity analysis (RSA). Results The RSA revealed significant interactions between age group and diagnostic group in R FFA, with increasing similarity within a category (faces, cars) into adulthood typically but not in those with ASD. This pattern was also evident in structurally defined ventral stream regions, namely L inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), bilateral temporoparietal junction (TPJ), L inferior temporal lobule, and the R fusiform gyrus. Conclusions The specialization of face and object processing from adolescence to adulthood evident in typical development may be impaired in ASD, undermining the ability to reach adult-level visual processing in those with ASD.

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2019

5. Cortical and subcortical brain morphometry differences between patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and healthy individuals across the lifespan:results from the ENIGMA-ASD working group

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Sarah Durston, Ilan Dinstein, Paul M. Thompson, Mara Parellada, Clodagh M. Murphy, Ilaria Gori, Mauricio Moller Martinho, Shlomi Haar, Louise Gallagher, Fengfeng Zhou, Devon Shook, Neda Jahanshad, Jackie Fitzgerald, Geraldo F. Busatto, Kirsten O'Hearn, Declan Murphy, Christine Ecker, Adriana Di Martino, Jane McGrath, Gregory L. Wallace, Evdokia Anagnostou, Celso Arango, Christine Deruelle, Eileen Daly, Katya Rubia, Christine M. Freitag, Pedro G.P. Rosa, Michela Tosetti, Jan K. Buitelaar, Bob Oranje, Margot J. Taylor, Marlene Behrmann, Maria Jalbrzikowski, Damien A. Fair, Daan van Rooij, Jennifer Fedor, Filippo Muratori, Beatriz Luna, Guillaume Auzias, Joost Janssen, Alessandra Retico, Liesbeth Hoekstra, Jason Lerch, Sara Calderoni, Fabio Luis Souza Duran, Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud university [Nijmegen]-Radboud university [Nijmegen], Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Psychiatry Department, Adolescent Unit, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of São Paulo (USP), NYU Langone Medical Center, University Medical Center [Utrecht], Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, King‘s College London, Oregon Health and Science University [Portland] (OHSU), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital [Oslo], David Geffen School of Medicine [Los Angeles], University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California-University of California, The Hospital for sick children [Toronto] (SickKids), Instituto de Fisica (IF), Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi [México] (UASLP), IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris [Pisa], Natbrainlab, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of psychiatry-King‘s College London, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Child Psychiatry, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging [Los Angeles] (LONI), Stella Maris, IRCCS, Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario, Western University, Department of Psychiatry, Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen], Radboud University [Nijmegen]-Radboud University [Nijmegen], Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo (USP), and University of California (UC)-University of California (UC)

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Male, 0301 basic medicine, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Autism, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Audiology, 0302 clinical medicine, Reference Values, Child, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Cerebral Cortex, Lifespan, Age Factors, ENIGMA, Healthy subjects, Brain, Middle Aged, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental health, Autism spectrum disorder, Child, Preschool, Healthy individuals, Female, Psychology, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, behavioral disciplines and activities, Article, 150 000 MR Techniques in Brain Function, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Neuroimaging, Neuroimaging genetics, AUTISMO, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Healthy control, mental disorders, medicine, Humans, Brain Morphology, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], Brain morphometry, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Case-Control Studies, Neuroscience, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Objective:Neuroimaging studies show structural differences in both cortical and subcortical brain regions in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared with healthy subjects. Findings are inconsistent, however, and it is unclear how differences develop across the lifespan. The authors investigated brain morphometry differences between individuals with ASD and healthy subjects, cross-sectionally across the lifespan, in a large multinational sample from the Enhancing Neuroimaging Genetics Through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) ASD working group.Method:The sample comprised 1,571 patients with ASD and 1,651 healthy control subjects (age range, 2–64 years) from 49 participating sites. MRI scans were preprocessed at individual sites with a harmonized protocol based on a validated automated-segmentation software program. Mega-analyses were used to test for case-control differences in subcortical volumes, cortical thickness, and surface area. Development of brain morphometry over the lifespan was modeled using a fractional polynomial approach.Results:The case-control mega-analysis demonstrated that ASD was associated with smaller subcortical volumes of the pallidum, putamen, amygdala, and nucleus accumbens (effect sizes [Cohen’s d], 0.13 to –0.13), as well as increased cortical thickness in the frontal cortex and decreased thickness in the temporal cortex (effect sizes, −0.21 to 0.20). Analyses of age effects indicate that the development of cortical thickness is altered in ASD, with the largest differences occurring around adolescence. No age-by-ASD interactions were observed in the subcortical partitions.Conclusions:The ENIGMA ASD working group provides the largest study of brain morphometry differences in ASD to date, using a well-established, validated, publicly available analysis pipeline. ASD patients showed altered morphometry in the cognitive and affective parts of the striatum, frontal cortex, and temporal cortex. Complex developmental trajectories were observed for the different regions, with a developmental peak around adolescence. These findings suggest an interplay in the abnormal development of the striatal, frontal, and temporal regions in ASD across the lifespan.

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2017
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6. Developmental plateau in visual object processing from adolescence to adulthood in autism

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Nancy J. Minshew, Jennifer Fedor, Andrew Lynn, James W. Tanaka, Beatriz Luna, and Kirsten O'Hearn

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Adult, Male, Adolescent, Cognitive Neuroscience, Face (sociological concept), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Object processing, Facial recognition system, behavioral disciplines and activities, Memorization, Article, Developmental psychology, Task (project management), Young Adult, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Developmental and Educational Psychology, medicine, Humans, Autistic Disorder, Memory test, Child, Transition (fiction), Age Factors, Recognition, Psychology, medicine.disease, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Face, Space Perception, Autism, Female, Psychology, psychological phenomena and processes, Cognitive psychology
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A lack of typical age-related improvement from adolescence to adulthood contributes to face recognition deficits in adults with autism on the Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT). The current studies examine if this atypical developmental trajectory generalizes to other tasks and objects, including parts of the face. The CFMT tests recognition of whole faces, often with a substantial delay. The current studies used the immediate memory (IM) task and the parts-whole face task from the Let’s Face It! battery, which examines whole faces, face parts, and cars, without a delay between memorization and test trials. In the IM task, participants memorize a face or car. Immediately after the target disappears, participants identify the target from two similar distractors. In the part-whole task, participants memorize a whole face. Immediately after the face disappears, participants identify the target from a distractor with different eyes or mouth, either as a face part or a whole face. Results indicate that recognition deficits in autism become more robust by adulthood, consistent with previous work, and also become more general, including cars. In the IM task, deficits in autism were specific to faces in childhood, but included cars by adulthood. In the part-whole task, deficits in autism became more robust by adulthood, including both eyes and mouths as parts and in whole faces. Across tasks, the deficit in autism increased between adolescence and adulthood, reflecting a lack of typical improvement, leading to deficits with non-face stimuli and on a task without a memory delay. These results suggest that brain maturation continues to be affected into adulthood in autism, and that the transition from adolescence to adulthood is a vulnerable stage for those with autism.

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2014

7. Lifestyle factors and reproductive health: taking control of your fertility

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Ashok Agarwal, Kelly R Biedenharn, Rakesh Sharma, and Jennifer Fedor

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Infertility, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Alcohol Drinking, media_common.quotation_subject, Reproductive medicine, Context (language use), Fertility, Review, Preventive care, Endocrinology, Environmental health, medicine, Humans, Exercise, Life Style, Reproductive health, media_common, Gynecology, business.industry, Smoking, Obstetrics and Gynecology, medicine.disease, Lifestyle factors, Reproductive Health, Caffeine consumption, Reproductive Medicine, Female, business, Developmental Biology
Abstract

Approximately 10 to 15% of couples are impacted by infertility. Recently, the pivotal role that lifestyle factors play in the development of infertility has generated a considerable amount of interest. Lifestyle factors are the modifiable habits and ways of life that can greatly influence overall health and well-being, including fertility. Many lifestyle factors such as the age at which to start a family, nutrition, weight, exercise, psychological stress, environmental and occupational exposures, and others can have substantial effects on fertility; lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, illicit drug use, and alcohol and caffeine consumption can negatively influence fertility while others such as preventative care may be beneficial. The present literature review encompasses multiple lifestyle factors and places infertility in context for the couple by focusing on both males and females; it aims to identify the roles that lifestyle factors play in determining reproductive status. The growing interest and amount of research in this field have made it evident that lifestyle factors have a significant impact on fertility.

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