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Overview

Liv S. Clasen is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Genetics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Clasen has contributed to a number of scientific papers published in notable venues such as Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Scientific Reports. Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Transcriptomic and cellular decoding of regional brain vulnerability to neurogenetic disorders," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Integrative structural, functional, and transcriptomic analyses of sex-biased brain organization in humans," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Morphological integration of the human brain across adolescence and adulthood," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Aneuploidy effects on human gene expression across three cell types," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Hypoplasia of cerebellar afferent networks in Down syndrome revealed by DTI-driven tensor based morphometry," 2020, Scientific Reports

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Armin Raznahan
  • Jonathan D. Blumenthal
  • Siyuan Liu
  • Erin Torres
  • Allysa Warling

Clasen's publications commonly appear in journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Dynamic mapping of human cortical development during childhood through early adulthood

    Nitin Gogtay;Jay N. Giedd;Leslie Lusk;Kiralee M. Hayashi

  • Developmental trajectories of brain volume abnormalities in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    F. Xavier Castellanos;F. Xavier Castellanos;Patti P. Lee;Wendy Sharp;Neal O. Jeffries

  • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is characterized by a delay in cortical maturation

    P. Shaw;K. Eckstrand;W. Sharp;J. Blumenthal

  • Neurodevelopmental Trajectories of the Human Cerebral Cortex

    Philip Shaw;Noor J. Kabani;Jason P. Lerch;Kristen Eckstrand

  • Intellectual ability and cortical development in children and adolescents

    P. Shaw;D. Greenstein;J. Lerch;L. Clasen

  • Sexual dimorphism of brain developmental trajectories during childhood and adolescence

    Rhoshel K. Lenroot;Nitin Gogtay;Deanna K. Greenstein;Elizabeth Molloy Wells

  • How Does Your Cortex Grow

    Armin Raznahan;Phillip Shaw;Francois Lalonde;Mike Stockman

  • Longitudinal mapping of cortical thickness and clinical outcome in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Philip Shaw;Jason Lerch;Deanna Greenstein;Wendy Sharp

  • The influence of puberty on subcortical brain development

    Anne-Lise Goddings;Anne-Lise Goddings;Kathryn L. Mills;Liv S. Clasen;Jay N. Giedd

  • Dynamic mapping of normal human hippocampal development.

    Nitin Gogtay;Tom F. Nugent;David H. Herman;Anna Ordonez

  • Disrupted Modularity and Local Connectivity of Brain Functional Networks in Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia

    Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch;Nitin Gogtay;David Meunier;Rasmus Birn

  • Developmental changes in the structure of the social brain in late childhood and adolescence

    Kathryn L. Mills;François Lalonde;Liv S. Clasen;Jay N. Giedd

  • Morphometric Similarity Networks Detect Microscale Cortical Organization and Predict Inter-Individual Cognitive Variation

    Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;František Váša;Maxwell Shinn;Rafael Romero-Garcia

  • The Developmental Mismatch in Structural Brain Maturation during Adolescence

    Kathryn L. Mills;Anne Lise Goddings;Liv S. Clasen;Jay N. Giedd

  • Puberty-related influences on brain development.

    Jay N. Giedd;Liv S. Clasen;Rhoshel Lenroot;Dede Greenstein

  • Cortical morphology in children and adolescents with different apolipoprotein E gene polymorphisms: an observational study

    Philip Shaw;Jason P Lerch;Jens C Pruessner;Kristin N Taylor

  • Longitudinal four-dimensional mapping of subcortical anatomy in human development

    Armin Raznahan;Phillip W. Shaw;Jason P. Lerch;Liv S. Clasen

  • The Anatomical Distance of Functional Connections Predicts Brain Network Topology in Health and Schizophrenia

    Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch;Petra E. Vértes;Reva Stidd;François Lalonde

  • Patterns of coordinated anatomical change in human cortical development: a longitudinal neuroimaging study of maturational coupling.

    Armin Raznahan;Jason P. Lerch;Nancy Lee;Dede Greenstein

  • Longitudinally mapping the influence of sex and androgen signaling on the dynamics of human cortical maturation in adolescence

    Armin Raznahan;Yohan Lee;Reva Stidd;Robert Long

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay N. Giedd
Jay N. Giedd University of California, San Diego
Armin Raznahan
Armin Raznahan National Institutes of Health
Judith L. Rapoport
Judith L. Rapoport National Institutes of Health
Jakob Seidlitz
Jakob Seidlitz University of Pennsylvania
Gregory L. Wallace
Gregory L. Wallace George Washington University
M. Mallar Chakravarty
M. Mallar Chakravarty McGill University
Rhoshel K. Lenroot
Rhoshel K. Lenroot University of New South Wales
Alan C. Evans
Alan C. Evans McGill University
Aaron Alexander-Bloch
Aaron Alexander-Bloch University of Pennsylvania
Petra E. Vértes
Petra E. Vértes University of Cambridge

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