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An experiment of nature: brain anatomy parallels cognition and behavior in Williams syndromeAllan L Reiss
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
J Neurosci 24:5009-15. 2004..These findings point to specific neuroanatomical correlates for the unique topography of cognitive and behavioral features associated with this disorder...
Sex differences in cerebral volumes of 8-year-olds born pretermAllan L Reiss
Stanford Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
J Pediatr 145:242-9. 2004..These findings indicate that the sex of the very preterm newborn influences the mechanisms by which the developing brain is affected...
The behavioral neurogenetics of fragile X syndrome: analyzing gene-brain-behavior relationships in child developmental psychopathologiesAllan L Reiss
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development and Behavioral Neurogenetics Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305 5719, USA
Dev Psychopathol 15:927-68. 2003....
Anomalous hypothalamic responses to humor in cataplexyAllan L Reiss
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2225. 2008..The objective of this study was to examine the neural systems underlying humor processing in individuals with cataplexy...
Childhood developmental disorders: an academic and clinical convergence point for psychiatry, neurology, psychology and pediatricsAllan L Reiss
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:87-98. 2009..Such change is not only desirable but, in fact, necessary to bring about a truly innovative and more effective approach to treating disorders of the developing brain...
Aberrant brain activation during gaze processing in boys with fragile X syndromeChrista Watson
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Rd, Stanford, CA 94305 5795, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:1315-23. 2008..To date (to our knowledge), this behavior in fraX has been studied only in female subjects, who show lesser degrees of gaze aversion...
Neuroanatomical differences in toddler boys with fragile x syndrome and idiopathic autismFumiko Hoeft
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305 5795, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:295-305. 2011..Many conditions of atypical development can lead to autism, including fragile X syndrome (FXS), which is presently the most common known single-gene cause of autism...
Posttraumatic stress symptoms and brain function during a response-inhibition task: an fMRI study in youthVictor G Carrion
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5719, USA
Depress Anxiety 25:514-26. 2008..Insula activation correlated positively with PTSS severity. Diminished middle frontal activity and enhanced medial frontal activity during response-inhibition tasks may represent underlying neurofunctional markers of PTSS...
More is not always better: increased fractional anisotropy of superior longitudinal fasciculus associated with poor visuospatial abilities in Williams syndromeFumiko Hoeft
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California 94305 5795, USA
J Neurosci 27:11960-5. 2007..Together, these findings suggest a specific role of right SLF abnormality in visuospatial construction deficits in WS...
Similar white matter aberrations in children with autism and their unaffected siblings: a diffusion tensor imaging study using tract-based spatial statisticsNaama Barnea-Goraly
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305 5795, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:1052-60. 2010..Recent diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies have indicated that white matter structure is aberrant in autism. To date, white matter structure has not been assessed in family members of children with autism...
Maternal history of reading difficulty is associated with reduced language-related gray matter in beginning readersJessica M Black
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research CIBSR, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral, Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Rd, Stanford, CA 94305 5795, USA
Neuroimage 59:3021-32. 2012..These results help to guide future neuroimaging research focusing on environmental and genetic influences and provide new information that may help predict which child will develop dyslexia in the future...
Early white-matter abnormalities of the ventral frontostriatal pathway in fragile X syndromeBrian W Haas
Center of Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94305 5719, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 51:593-9. 2009..Fragile X syndrome is associated with cognitive deficits in inhibitory control and with abnormal neuronal morphology and development...
Increased temporal lobe gyrification in preterm childrenShelli R Kesler
Stanford Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5719, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:445-53. 2006..Cortical development in the temporal lobe appears to be differentially vulnerable to preterm birth...
Reduced parietal and visual cortical activation during global processing in Williams syndromeDean Mobbs
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5719, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 49:433-8. 2007..These preliminary results largely confirm previous research findings and neural models implicating neurodevelopmental abnormalities in extended subcortical and cortical visual systems in WS, most notably dorsal-stream pathways...
Arithmetic ability and parietal alterations: a diffusion tensor imaging study in velocardiofacial syndromeNaama Barnea-Goraly
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 401 Quarry Rd, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 25:735-40. 2005..Inferior parietal lobe white matter structural aberrations may contribute to reduced arithmetic ability in VCFS...
Abnormal amygdala and prefrontal cortex activation to facial expressions in pediatric bipolar disorderAmy S Garrett
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research and the Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Program at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5719, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 51:821-31. 2012..The current study investigates whether these differences are associated with the early or late phase of activation, suggesting different temporal characteristics of brain responses...
The fusiform face area is enlarged in Williams syndromeGolijeh Golarai
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
J Neurosci 30:6700-12. 2010..Thus, a larger FFA may play a role in face recognition proficiency among WS...
Brain volume reductions within multiple cognitive systems in male preterm children at age twelveShelli R Kesler
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5795, USA
J Pediatr 152:513-20, 520.e1. 2008..To more precisely examine regional and subregional microstructural brain changes associated with preterm birth...
Reduced basal forebrain and hippocampal activation during memory encoding in girls with fragile X syndromeMichael D Greicius
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford Brain Research Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neuroreport 15:1579-83. 2004..This is the first study, to our knowledge, demonstrating functional deficits in FraX subjects in brain regions known to have the highest FMR1 transcription...
Converging evidence for abnormalities of the prefrontal cortex and evaluation of midsagittal structures in pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder: an MRI studyVictor G Carrion
Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development, Stanford, CA, United States
Psychiatry Res 172:226-34. 2009..Voxel-based morphometry may help to corroborate and further localize data obtained by volume of interest methods in PTSD...
Amygdala and hippocampal volumes in Turner syndrome: a high-resolution MRI study of X-monosomyShelli R Kesler
Stanford Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, MC5719, Stanford, CA 94305 5719, USA
Neuropsychologia 42:1971-8. 2004..Aberrant morphology in these regions may be related to the social cognition and memory deficits often experienced by individuals with TS. Further investigations of changes in medial temporal morphology associated with TS are warranted...
Regional analysis of hippocampal activation during memory encoding and retrieval: fMRI studyMichael D Greicius
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5719, USA
Hippocampus 13:164-74. 2003..Finally, this study is the first to quantify the effects of susceptibility-induced signal loss on hippocampal activation and suggests that this artifact has significantly biased the interpretation of earlier fMRI studies...
Volumetric analysis of regional cerebral development in preterm childrenShelli R Kesler
Stanford Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5719, USA
Pediatr Neurol 31:318-25. 2004..Lower birth weight and the presence of intraventricular hemorrhage may increase the risk for neuroanatomic abnormality...
Parietal attentional system aberrations during target detection in adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: event-related fMRI evidenceLeanne Tamm
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Rd, Stanford, CA 94305-5717, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:1033-43. 2006..Thus, dysfunction in the parietal attentional system may play a significant role in the behavioral phenotype of ADHD...
Frontostriatal dysfunction during response inhibition in Williams syndromeDean Mobbs
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5719, USA
Biol Psychiatry 62:256-61. 2007..Here we explore the neural systems that mediate response inhibition in WS...
Stress predicts brain changes in children: a pilot longitudinal study on youth stress, posttraumatic stress disorder, and the hippocampusVictor G Carrion
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Pediatrics 119:509-16. 2007..We hypothesized that cortisol volumes would predict hippocampal volume reduction in patients with posttraumatic symptoms...
Reduced hippocampal activity in youth with posttraumatic stress symptoms: an FMRI studyVictor G Carrion
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 5719, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 35:559-69. 2010..Our goal is to investigate the function of the hippocampus in adolescents with PTSS during a memory processing task...
Aberrant brain activation during a working memory task in psychotic major depressionAmy Garrett
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Am J Psychiatry 168:173-82. 2011..The authors sought to better understand the neural circuitry associated with working memory deficits in psychotic major depression by examining brain function during an N-back task...
Fronto-striatal dysfunction and potential compensatory mechanisms in male adolescents with fragile X syndromeFumiko Hoeft
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research CIBSR, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 28:543-54. 2007..We further show that these putative compensatory processes can be predicted by a complex interaction between genetic risk and neural function...
White matter development during childhood and adolescence: a cross-sectional diffusion tensor imaging studyNaama Barnea-Goraly
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, and Department of Psychology, Children s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA 92868, USA
Cereb Cortex 15:1848-54. 2005..This typical developmental trajectory may be altered in individuals with disorders of development, cognition and behavior...
Cognitive correlates of white matter growth and stress hormones in female squirrel monkey adultsDavid M Lyons
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5485, USA
J Neurosci 24:3655-62. 2004....
A volumetric study of parietal lobe subregions in Turner syndromeWendy E Brown
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 46:607-9. 2004..Structural differences in the parietal lobe are localized specifically to the anterior and superior parietal lobe and might be related to the visuospatial and visuomotor deficits associated with Turner syndrome...
Selective alterations of white matter associated with visuospatial and sensorimotor dysfunction in turner syndromeMarie Holzapfel
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5719, USA
J Neurosci 26:7007-13. 2006..These complementary analyses provide evidence for alterations in white matter pathways that subserve affected and preserved cognitive functions in TS...
Effects of intranasal oxytocin on social anxiety in males with fragile X syndromeScott S Hall
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5795, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 37:509-18. 2012..Further double-blind placebo-controlled studies of OT, conducted in combination with behavioral treatment programs, may be warranted...
Resting-state functional connectivity in major depression: abnormally increased contributions from subgenual cingulate cortex and thalamusMichael D Greicius
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California 94305 5235, USA
Biol Psychiatry 62:429-37. 2007..The goal of this study was to examine resting-state, default-mode network functional connectivity in subjects with major depression and in healthy controls...
Limbic and corpus callosum aberrations in adolescents with bipolar disorder: a tract-based spatial statistics analysisNaama Barnea-Goraly
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University, 401 Quarry Road, MC 5795, Stanford, CA 94305 5795, USA
Biol Psychiatry 66:238-44. 2009..In this study, we investigated white matter structure in adolescents with familial bipolar disorder using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and a whole brain analysis...
Sex differences in brain activation elicited by humorEiman Azim
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, and Program in Neuroscience, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5719, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:16496-501. 2005..These results indicate sex-specific differences in neural response to humor with implications for sex-based disparities in the integration of cognition and emotion...
Longitudinal changes in intellectual development in children with Fragile X syndromeScott S Hall
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5795, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:927-39. 2008..The results of this study suggest that slower learning contributes to the low and declining standardized IQ scores observed in children with FXS...
Neuro-functional differences associated with arithmetic processing in Turner syndromeShelli R Kesler
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5719, USA
Cereb Cortex 16:849-56. 2006..They must recruit additional brain regions during a relatively easy task and demonstrate a potentially inefficient response to increased task difficulty compared with controls...
Amygdalar activation associated with positive and negative facial expressionsTony T Yang
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Neuroreport 13:1737-41. 2002..These findings suggest a broader role for the amygdala in modulating the vigilance level during the perception of several negative and positive facial emotions...
The amygdala is enlarged in children but not adolescents with autism; the hippocampus is enlarged at all agesCynthia Mills Schumann
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Neuroscience and the M.I.N.D. (Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders) Institute, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
J Neurosci 24:6392-401. 2004..The cause of amygdala and hippocampal abnormalities in autism is currently unknown...
Neural correlates of humor detection and appreciation in childrenMichelle N Neely
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
J Neurosci 32:1784-90. 2012..By providing a crucial link in studying the neurodevelopment of humor processing across the lifespan, our findings contribute valuable information about the evolution of how children understand their world...
Functional neuroanatomy of spatial orientation processing in Turner syndromeShelli R Kesler
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Cereb Cortex 14:174-80. 2004..Activation, and possibly deactivation, deficits in these areas may be responsible for the visuospatial deficits observed in females with TS...
Cholinergic dysfunction in fragile X syndrome and potential intervention: a preliminary 1H MRS studyShelli R Kesler
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5795, USA
Am J Med Genet A 149:403-7. 2009....
Physiological correlates of social avoidance behavior in children and adolescents with fragile x syndromeScott S Hall
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5795, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:320-9. 2009..To date, almost all studies in this area have been confounded by inclusion of task demands in addition to social demands...
Factors associated with parenting stress in mothers of children with fragile X syndromeCindy Johnston
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5719, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 24:267-75. 2003..Determining the relative contribution of factors associated with stress will assist in the development of interventions to improve parental well-being in mothers of children with FraX...
Effect of head orientation on gaze processing in fusiform gyrus and superior temporal sulcusNatalie M Pageler
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neuroimage 20:318-29. 2003..Together, these findings suggest that head orientation has a significant effect on gaze processing and these effects are manifest not only in the STS, but also the FG...
Effects of X-monosomy and X-linked imprinting on superior temporal gyrus morphology in Turner syndromeShelli R Kesler
Stanford Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5719, USA
Biol Psychiatry 54:636-46. 2003..The Xm subjects differed from Xp subjects only in terms of gray matter. CONCLUSIONS:These findings suggest that X-monosomy and X-linked imprinting negatively affect STG development, possibly by disrupting neural pruning mechanisms...
Gender differences in the mesocorticolimbic system during computer game-playFumiko Hoeft
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5795, USA
J Psychiatr Res 42:253-8. 2008..These gender differences may help explain why males are more attracted to, and more likely to become "hooked" on video games than females...
From research to practice: teacher and pediatrician awareness of phenotypic traits in neurogenetic syndromesTammy H Lee
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Am J Ment Retard 110:100-6. 2005....
Decreased prefrontal cortical volume associated with increased bedtime cortisol in traumatized youthVictor G Carrion
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 5719, USA
Biol Psychiatry 68:491-3. 2010..The purpose of this study was to investigate prefrontal cortex (PFC) volumes in youth with posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and explore the relationship between cortisol secretion and PFC volumes...
Genomic imprinting effects on cognitive and social abilities in prepubertal girls with Turner syndromeJean François Lepage
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Rd, MC 5795, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 97:E460-4. 2012..However, due to small and heterogeneous samples, inconsistent results have emerged from these studies...
The brain basis of the phonological deficit in dyslexia is independent of IQHiroko Tanaka
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Psychol Sci 22:1442-51. 2011..These results converge with behavioral evidence indicating that, regardless of IQ, poor readers have similar kinds of reading difficulties in relation to phonological processing...
Reduced functional connectivity during working memory in Turner syndromeSigne Bray
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA
Cereb Cortex 21:2471-81. 2011..These findings suggest that structural brain abnormalities in TS affect not only regional activity but also the functional interactions between regions and that this has important consequences for behavior...
Prediction of children's reading skills using behavioral, functional, and structural neuroimaging measuresFumiko Hoeft
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5795, USA
Behav Neurosci 121:602-13. 2007..Results were validated using cross-validation methods. These findings suggest that neuroimaging methods may be useful in enhancing the early identification of children at risk for poor decoding and reading skills...
COMT genotype predicts longitudinal cognitive decline and psychosis in 22q11.2 deletion syndromeDoron Gothelf
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, California 94305 5795, USA
Nat Neurosci 8:1500-2. 2005..The 22q11.2 deletion syndrome is a promising model for identifying biomarkers related to the development of schizophrenia...
Changes in frontal-parietal activation and math skills performance following adaptive number sense training: preliminary results from a pilot studyShelli R Kesler
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Neuropsychol Rehabil 21:433-54. 2011....
Chronological age, but not FMRP levels, predicts neuropsychological performance in girls with fragile X syndromeAmy A Lightbody
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 141:468-72. 2006..In contrast, the relative deficits in spatial and verbal abilities of these girls did not appear to increase with age, suggesting that these abilities may be spared...
Neural systems predicting long-term outcome in dyslexiaFumiko Hoeft
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94129, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:361-6. 2011..Brain measures that predict future behavioral outcomes (neuroprognosis) may be more accurate, in some cases, than available behavioral measures...
Psychosocial functioning and social cognitive processing in girls with Turner syndromeDavid S Hong
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 32:512-20. 2011..Difficulties in social functioning have also been increasingly identified in this population. The purpose of this study was to examine elements of social competence and cognition in a pre-estrogen population of girls with TS...
Diurnal salivary cortisol in pediatric posttraumatic stress disorderVictor G Carrion
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5719, USA
Biol Psychiatry 51:575-82. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: The physiologic response of children with history of trauma and with PTSD symptoms may be characterized by heightened adrenal activity...
NIRS-based hyperscanning reveals increased interpersonal coherence in superior frontal cortex during cooperationXu Cui
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neuroimage 59:2430-7. 2012..This study demonstrates the use of NIRS-based hyperscanning in studies of social interaction in a naturalistic environment...
Contribution of executive functions to visuospatial difficulties in prepubertal girls with Turner syndromeJean François Lepage
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University, California, USA
Dev Neuropsychol 36:988-1002. 2011..These results suggest that executive dysfunctions observed in TS contribute to their visuospatial impairments...
Speeded near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) response detectionXu Cui
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e15474. 2010..We found that the latency to decode a change in behavioral state can be reduced by 50% (from 4.8 s to 2.4 s), which will enhance the feasibility of NIRS for real-time applications...
Functional brain activation during arithmetic processing in females with fragile X Syndrome is related to FMR1 protein expressionSusan M Rivera
Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 16:206-18. 2002..More broadly, this investigation demonstrates a unique bridging of cognitive and molecular neuroscience and represents a useful approach for the study of brain development and function...
White matter structure in autism: preliminary evidence from diffusion tensor imagingNaama Barnea-Goraly
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Biol Psychiatry 55:323-6. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Disruption of white matter tracts between regions implicated in social functioning may contribute to impaired social cognition in autism...
Neuroanatomical abnormalities in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderAmy Garrett
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, CA 94305 5795, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:1321-8. 2008..However, findings are not always consistent, perhaps because of heterogeneous subject samples. Studying youths with documented familial ADHD provides an opportunity to examine a more homogeneous population...
Brain development in Turner syndrome: a magnetic resonance imaging studyWendy E Brown
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305-5719, USA
Psychiatry Res 116:187-96. 2002..Further investigation into the possible role of genomic imprinting is therefore warranted...
Autism in fragile X syndrome: a category mistake?Scott S Hall
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 5795, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:921-33. 2010..To determine whether this classification is appropriate, we examined the profiles of autistic behaviors shown by boys and girls with FXS...
Regional differences of the prefrontal cortex in pediatric PTSD: an MRI studyKatherine A Richert
Stanford Early Life Stress Research Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California 94305-5719, USA
Depress Anxiety 23:17-25. 2006..Furthermore, the neuroanatomy of the dorsal PFC may influence the degree of functional impairment experienced by children with PTSD symptoms...
Default-mode network activity distinguishes Alzheimer's disease from healthy aging: evidence from functional MRIMichael D Greicius
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5719, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:4637-42. 2004..Finally, a goodness-of-fit analysis applied at the individual subject level suggests that activity in the default-mode network may ultimately prove a sensitive and specific biomarker for incipient AD...
Voxel-based morphometry elucidates structural neuroanatomy of high-functioning autism and Asperger syndromeHower Kwon
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 46:760-4. 2004....
The contribution of novel brain imaging techniques to understanding the neurobiology of mental retardation and developmental disabilitiesDoron Gothelf
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5719, USA
Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev 11:331-9. 2005....
Corpus callosum and posterior fossa development in monozygotic females: a morphometric MRI study of Turner syndromeSusannah L Fryer
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305-5719, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 45:320-4. 2003..Further, cerebellar vermis hypoplasia associated with TS agrees with literature that suggests the posterior fossa as a region prone to structural alterations in the face of early developmental insult...
Region-specific alterations in brain development in one- to three-year-old boys with fragile X syndromeFumiko Hoeft
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5795, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:9335-9. 2010..The creation of an early and accurate human brain phenotype for FXS in humans will significantly improve our capability to detect whether new disease-specific treatments can "rescue" the FXS phenotype in affected individuals...
White matter tract alterations in fragile X syndrome: preliminary evidence from diffusion tensor imagingNaama Barnea-Goraly
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305-5719, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 118:81-8. 2003....
Neuroanatomic variation in monozygotic twin pairs discordant for the narrow phenotype for autismWendy R Kates
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:539-46. 2004..The authors examined the relationship of twin pair differences in clinical phenotype to differences in neuroanatomic phenotype...
Persistent default-mode network connectivity during light sedationMichael D Greicius
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5235, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 29:839-47. 2008..We hypothesize that focal reductions in DMN connectivity, as shown here in the posterior cingulate cortex, may represent a stable correlate of reduced consciousness...
A developmental fMRI study of the Stroop color-word taskNancy E Adleman
Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, 94305, USA
Neuroimage 16:61-75. 2002..Findings from this study, the first developmental fMRI investigation of the Stroop interference task, provide a template with which normal development and neurodevelopmental disorders of prefrontal cortex function can be assessed...
Psychiatric disorders and behavioral problems in children with velocardiofacial syndrome: usefulness as phenotypic indicators of schizophrenia riskCarl Feinstein
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305-5719, USA
Biol Psychiatry 51:312-8. 2002..The high rate of psychopathology in children with VCFS is not a useful phenotypic indicator of high risk for adult onset schizophrenia...
The feasibility of detecting neuropsychologic and neuroanatomic effects of type 1 diabetes in young childrenTandy Aye
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Diabetes Care 34:1458-62. 2011..To determine if frequent exposures to hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia during early childhood lead to neurocognitive deficits and changes in brain anatomy...
Genetic and environmental influences on the cognitive outcomes of children with fragile X syndromeJennifer Dyer-Friedman
Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305 5719, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:237-44. 2002..To measure the genetic and environmental factors influencing the cognitive outcomes in children with fragile X, a common genetic disorder causing cognitive impairments...
Investigation of neuroanatomical differences between autism and Asperger syndromeLinda J Lotspeich
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 61:291-8. 2004....
Modeling family dynamics in children with fragile x syndromeScott S Hall
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5719, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 35:29-42. 2007..Future research efforts should employ longitudinal research designs to confirm these findings...
Toward an empirical definition of pediatric PTSD: the phenomenology of PTSD symptoms in youthVictor G Carrion
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development, Stanford University, CA 94305 5719, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:166-73. 2002..e., criteria B, C, D), and to examine the aggregation of PTSD symptom clusters across developmental stages...
Relating semantic and episodic memory systemsVinod Menon
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5719, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 13:261-5. 2002..Here we provide direct evidence for a functional relationship between these two memory systems by showing that left lateral temporal lobe regions involved in semantic memory play an important role in accurate episodic memory retrieval...
Maturation of brain function associated with response inhibitionLeanne Tamm
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5717, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:1231-8. 2002....
Functional near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) signal improvement based on negative correlation between oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin dynamicsXu Cui
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neuroimage 49:3039-46. 2010..We show that despite its simplicity, this method is effective in reducing noise and improving signal quality, for both online and offline noise reduction...
Aberrant brain activation during a response inhibition task in adolescent eating disorder subtypesJames Lock
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305, USA
Am J Psychiatry 168:55-64. 2011....
Here's looking at you, kid: neural systems underlying face and gaze processing in fragile X syndromeAmy S Garrett
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 61:281-8. 2004..In this study, we analyzed brain activation in response to face and gaze stimuli to better understand neural functioning associated with social perception in fraX...
The impact of spermine synthase (SMS) mutations on brain morphologyShelli R Kesler
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, MC5795, Stanford, CA 94305 5795, USA
Neurogenetics 10:299-305. 2009..Disruption of SMS function may negatively affect regional brain volumes that subserve cognitive and motor abilities. This research provides valuable insight into the effects of polyamine function on brain development...
Functional connectivity in the resting brain: a network analysis of the default mode hypothesisMichael D Greicius
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305 5719, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:253-8. 2003..Our findings also provide insight into how this network is modulated by task demands and what functions it might subserve...
Functional and morphometric brain dissociation between dyslexia and reading abilityFumiko Hoeft
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305 2130, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:4234-9. 2007..In contrast, areas of hypoactivation in dyslexia reflected functional atypicalities related to dyslexia itself, independent of current reading ability, and related to atypical brain morphology in dyslexia...
Using percentile schedules to increase eye contact in children with Fragile X syndromeScott S Hall
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, California 94305, USA
J Appl Behav Anal 42:171-6. 2009..Results showed that although aversion to eye contact is often thought to be unamenable to change in FXS, it can be shaped in some individuals using percentile schedules either alone or in combination with overcorrection...
Compulsive, self-injurious, and autistic behavior in children and adolescents with fragile X syndromeScott S Hall
Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, CA 94305 5795, USA
Am J Ment Retard 113:44-53. 2008..Taken together, these data suggest that autistic and compulsive behaviors are highly prevalent in fragile X syndrome and that lowered levels of FMRP and cortisol may be biological markers for these behaviors...
Neuroanatomy of fragile X syndrome is associated with aberrant behavior and the fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP)Doron Gothelf
Behavioral Neurogenetics Center, Child Psychiatry Department, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa
Ann Neurol 63:40-51. 2008..To determine how neuroanatomic variation in children and adolescents with fragile X syndrome is linked to reduced levels of the fragile X mental retardation-1 protein and to aberrant cognition and behavior...
Abnormal cortical complexity and thickness profiles mapped in Williams syndromePaul M Thompson
Laboratory of Neuroimaging, Brain Mapping Division, Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1769, USA
J Neurosci 25:4146-58. 2005..03). These findings visualize cortical zones with altered anatomy in WS, which merit additional study with techniques to assess function and connectivity...
Symmetry of cortical folding abnormalities in Williams syndrome revealed by surface-based analysesDavid C Van Essen
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
J Neurosci 26:5470-83. 2006..These findings provide insights regarding possible developmental mechanisms that give rise to folding abnormalities and to the spectrum of behavioral characteristics associated with WS...
Social behavior and cortisol reactivity in children with fragile X syndromeDavid Hessl
M.I.N.D. Institute, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:602-10. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Results of the study suggest a unique relation between abnormal gaze behavior and L-HPA mediated stress reactivity in FXS...
Defining the social phenotype in Williams syndrome: a model for linking gene, the brain, and behaviorAnna Järvinen-Pasley
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037 1099, USA
Dev Psychopathol 20:1-35. 2008....
Abnormal cortical activation during response inhibition in 22q11.2 deletion syndromeDoron Gothelf
The Behavioral Neurogenetics Center, Child Psychiatry Department, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
Hum Brain Mapp 28:533-42. 2007..2DS may recruit additional cingulate activation for tasks requiring attention and inhibition. 22q11.2DS is a unique model for learning about the deleterious effects of decreased dosage of the COMT gene on brain function...
