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Flavio Dell'Acqua is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has a research focus spanning multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience. Their work is particularly centered on advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, contributing extensively to understanding brain structure and function in both typical and atypical populations.

Their main fields of study include Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in subfields such as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Clinical Psychology.

Key topics covered by Dell'Acqua in their research comprise:

  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Frequent publication venues for Dell'Acqua's work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Autism
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

The researcher has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, notably Declan Murphy, Jan K. Buitelaar, Christine Ecker, Eva Loth, and Tony Charman.

Recent publications include:

  • "Anatomical evidence of an indirect pathway for word repetition," 2020, Neurology
  • "Atypical Brain Asymmetry in Autism-A Candidate for Clinically Meaningful Stratification," 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • "Differences in Frontal Network Anatomy Across Primate Species," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Excitatory/inhibitory imbalance in autism: the role of glutamate and GABA gene-sets in symptoms and cortical brain structure," 2023, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Resting state EEG power spectrum and functional connectivity in autism: a cross-sectional analysis," 2022, Molecular Autism

Best Publications

  • The challenge of mapping the human connectome based on diffusion tractography

    Klaus H. Maier-Hein;Peter F. Neher;Jean-Christophe Houde;Marc-Alexandre Cote

  • A lateralized brain network for visuospatial attention

    Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Flavio Dell'Acqua;Flavio Dell'Acqua;Stephanie J Forkel;Andrew Simmons;Andrew Simmons

  • Short frontal lobe connections of the human brain.

    Marco Catani;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Francesco Vergani;Farah Malik

  • A revised limbic system model for memory, emotion and behaviour

    Marco Catani;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten

  • Atlasing location, asymmetry and inter-subject variability of white matter tracts in the human brain with MR diffusion tractography.

    Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Dominic H. ffytche;Alberto Bizzi;Flavio Dell'Acqua;Flavio Dell'Acqua

  • Monkey to human comparative anatomy of the frontal lobe association tracts

    Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Romain Valabregue;Marco Catani

  • A novel frontal pathway underlies verbal fluency in primary progressive aphasia

    Marco Catani;Marsel M. Mesulam;Estrid Jakobsen;Farah Malik

  • Can spherical deconvolution provide more information than fiber orientations? Hindrance modulated orientational anisotropy, a true-tract specific index to characterize white matter diffusion.

    Flavio Dell'Acqua;Andrew Simmons;Steven C.R. Williams;Marco Catani

  • A modified damped Richardson–Lucy algorithm to reduce isotropic background effects in spherical deconvolution

    Flavio Dell'Acqua;Paola Scifo;Giovanna Rizzo;Marco Catani

  • Atlasing the frontal lobe connections and their variability due to age and education: a spherical deconvolution tractography study

    K Rojkova;E Volle;M Urbanski;F Humbert

  • Word learning is mediated by the left arcuate fasciculus

    Diana López-Barroso;Marco Catani;Pablo Ripollés;Flavio Dell'Acqua;Flavio Dell'Acqua

  • Anatomical predictors of aphasia recovery: a tractography study of bilateral perisylvian language networks.

    Stephanie J. Forkel;Stephanie J. Forkel;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Lalit Kalra

  • Beyond cortical localization in clinico-anatomical correlation.

    Marco Catani;Flavio Dell'Acqua;Alberto Bizzi;Stephanie J. Forkel

  • The anatomy of fronto-occipital connections from early blunt dissections to contemporary tractography.

    Stephanie J. Forkel;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Jamie M. Kawadler;Flavio Dell'Acqua

  • Fronto-striatal circuitry and inhibitory control in autism: Findings from diffusion tensor imaging tractography

    Marieke Langen;Alexander Leemans;Alexander Leemans;Patrick Johnston;Christine Ecker

  • A Model-Based Deconvolution Approach to Solve Fiber Crossing in Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging

    F. Dell'Acqua;G. Rizzo;P. Scifo;R.A. Clarke

  • Modelling white matter with spherical deconvolution: How and why?

    Flavio Dell'Acqua;J.‐Donald Tournier

  • From Phineas Gage and Monsieur Leborgne to H.M.: Revisiting Disconnection Syndromes

    M. Thiebaut De Schotten;F. Dell'Acqua;P. Ratiu;A. Leslie

  • Microstructural imaging of the human brain with a ‘super-scanner’: 10 key advantages of ultra-strong gradients for diffusion MRI

    Derek K. Jones;Derek K. Jones;Daniel C. Alexander;Daniel C. Alexander;Richard Bowtell;Mara Cercignani

  • White matter connections of the supplementary motor area in humans

    Francesco Vergani;Luis Lacerda;Juan Martino;Johannes Attems

  • Non-invasive imaging of transplanted human neural stem cells and ECM scaffold remodeling in the stroke-damaged rat brain by 19F- and diffusion-MRI

    Ellen Bible;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Bhavana Solanky;Anthony Balducci

  • A Lateralized Brain Network for Visuo-Spatial Attention

    Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Stephanie Forkel;Andrew Simmons

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Catani
Marco Catani King's College London
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten University of Bordeaux
Michael V. Lombardo
Michael V. Lombardo Italian Institute of Technology
Christian F. Beckmann
Christian F. Beckmann Radboud University
Meng-Chuan Lai
Meng-Chuan Lai Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
Michael C. Craig
Michael C. Craig King's College London
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Eva Loth
Eva Loth King's College London
Tony Charman
Tony Charman King's College London

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