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Eric Courchesne is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus also on Neuroscience. Subfields of study include Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Clinical Psychology, and Education.

The main topics in Eric Courchesne's research encompass Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Congenital heart defects research, Child Development and Digital Technology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, and Family and Disability Support Research.

Frequent publication venues for Courchesne include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 17 publications, Nature with 3 publications, Nature Communications also with 3 publications, Molecular Autism with 3 publications, and UNC Libraries with 3 publications.

Several papers authored or coauthored by Eric Courchesne illustrate key research contributions:

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan, 2022, Nature
  • Large-scale targeted sequencing identifies risk genes for neurodevelopmental disorders, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Prenatal Origins of ASD: The When, What, and How of ASD Development, 2020, Trends in Neurosciences
  • A phenotypic spectrum of autism is attributable to the combined effects of rare variants, polygenic risk and sex, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Get SET Early to Identify and Treatment Refer Autism Spectrum Disorder at 1 Year and Discover Factors That Influence Early Diagnosis, 2021, The Journal of Pediatrics

Eric Courchesne has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Karen Pierce, Michael Lombardo, Lisa T. Eyler, Cynthia Carter Barnes, and Vahid Gazestani.

Best Publications

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan

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  • Dynamic Brain Sources of Visual Evoked Responses

    S. Makeig;M. Westerfield;T.-P. Jung;S. Enghoff

  • Unusual brain growth patterns in early life in patients with autistic disorder: An MRI study

    Eric Courchesne;C. M. Karns;H. R. Davis;R. Ziccardi

  • Removal of eye activity artifacts from visual event-related potentials in normal and clinical subjects

    Tzyy-Ping Jung;Scott Makeig;Marissa Westerfield;Marissa Westerfield;Jeanne Townsend;Jeanne Townsend

  • Evidence of brain overgrowth in the first year of life in autism.

    Eric Courchesne;Ruth Carper;Natacha Akshoomoff

  • Hypoplasia of Cerebellar Vermal Lobules VI and VII in Autism

    Courchesne E;Yeung-Courchesne R;Press Ga;Hesselink

  • Stimulus novelty, task relevance and the visual evoked potential in man

    Eric Courchesne;Steven A Hillyard;Robert Galambos

  • Normal brain development and aging: quantitative analysis at in vivo MR imaging in healthy volunteers

    Eric Courchesne;Heather J. Chisum;Jeanne Townsend;Angilene Cowles

  • Face processing occurs outside the fusiform 'face area' in autism: evidence from functional MRI.

    Karen Pierce;R.-A. Müller;J. Ambrose;G. Allen

  • Why the frontal cortex in autism might be talking only to itself: local over-connectivity but long-distance disconnection

    Eric Courchesne;Karen Pierce

  • Mapping early brain development in autism.

    Eric Courchesne;Karen Pierce;Cynthia M. Schumann;Elizabeth Redcay

  • Attentional activation of the cerebellum independent of motor involvement

    Greg Allen;Richard B. Buxton;Eric C. Wong;Eric Courchesne

  • Neuron number and size in prefrontal cortex of children with autism

    Eric Courchesne;Peter R. Mouton;Michael E. Calhoun;Katerina Semendeferi

  • Impairment in shifting attention in autistic and cerebellar patients.

    Eric Courchesne;Jeanne Townsend;Natacha A. Akshoomoff;Osamu Saitoh

  • Analysis and visualization of single-trial event-related potentials

    Tzyy Ping Jung;Scott Makeig;Scott Makeig;Marissa Westerfield;Marissa Westerfield;Jeanne Townsend;Jeanne Townsend

  • Microglial activation and increased microglial density observed in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in autism.

    John T. Morgan;Gursharan Chana;Carlos A. Pardo;Cristian Achim

  • Brain Growth Across the Life Span in Autism: Age-Specific Changes in Anatomical Pathology

    Eric Courchesne;Kathleen Campbell;Stephanie Solso

  • When Is the Brain Enlarged in Autism? A Meta-Analysis of All Brain Size Reports

    Elizabeth Redcay;Eric Courchesne;Eric Courchesne

  • Patches of Disorganization in the Neocortex of Children with Autism

    Rich Stoner;Maggie L. Chow;Maureen P. Boyle;Susan M. Sunkin

  • Autism or atypical autism in maternally but not paternally derived proximal 15q duplication.

    Edwin Cook;Valerie Lindgren;Bennett L. Leventhal;Rachel Courchesne

  • Failing to deactivate: Resting functional abnormalities in autism

    Daniel P. Kennedy;Elizabeth Redcay;Eric Courchesne

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeanne Townsend
Jeanne Townsend University of California, San Diego
Michael V. Lombardo
Michael V. Lombardo Italian Institute of Technology
Ralph-Axel Müller
Ralph-Axel Müller San Diego State University
Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord University of California, Los Angeles
Alan J. Lincoln
Alan J. Lincoln Alliant International University
Edwin H. Cook
Edwin H. Cook University of Illinois at Chicago
Tzyy-Ping Jung
Tzyy-Ping Jung University of California, San Diego
Sarah S. Murray
Sarah S. Murray University of California, San Diego
Jozef Gecz
Jozef Gecz University of Adelaide
John R. Hesselink
John R. Hesselink University of California, San Diego

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