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Michael C. Craig is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within medicine, psychology, and neuroscience, with significant contributions across clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work has a strong focus on topics including child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, congenital heart defects research, autism spectrum disorder research, and functional brain connectivity studies. Additional areas of interest encompass maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, congenital heart disease studies, and coronary artery anomalies.

Recent publications reflect a range of investigations primarily in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. Notable papers include:

  • Mapping Subcortical Brain Alterations in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: Effects of Deletion Size and Convergence With Idiopathic Neuropsychiatric Illness (2020, American Journal of Psychiatry)
  • Effects of copy number variations on brain structure and risk for psychiatric illness: Large-scale studies from the ENIGMA working groups on CNVs (2021, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Magnitude and heterogeneity of brain structural abnormalities in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: a meta-analysis (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • The prevalence of premenstrual dysphoric disorder: Systematic review and meta-analysis (2024, Journal of Affective Disorders)
  • Aggression subtypes relate to distinct resting state functional connectivity in children and adolescents with disruptive behavior (2020, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)

Michael C. Craig frequently collaborates with several fellow researchers. Among the most common coauthors are Declan Murphy, Arjun Sethi, Eileen Daly, Maria Gudbrandsen, and Christine Ecker.

Published work by this researcher appears prominently in journals including:

  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Translational Psychiatry

Their publication record demonstrates involvement in public health, environmental and occupational health studies, molecular biology, and pediatrics alongside their primary fields. This multidisciplinary scope reflects the intersection of potential genetic, developmental, and psychological factors affecting child and adolescent health and neurodevelopmental conditions.

Best Publications

  • Altered connections on the road to psychopathy

    M. C. Craig;M. Catani;Q. Deeley;R. Latham

  • Biological sex affects the neurobiology of autism

    Meng-Chuan Lai;Meng-Chuan Lai;Michael V. Lombardo;John Suckling;Amber N. V. Ruigrok

  • Prenatal stress: Effects on fetal and child brain development

    Alexandra Lautarescu;Michael C. Craig;Vivette Glover

  • The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study: findings and implications for treatment.

    Michael C Craig;Pauline M Maki;Declan G M Murphy

  • Large-scale analyses of the relationship between sex, age and intelligence quotient heterogeneity and cortical morphometry in autism spectrum disorder.

    Saashi A Bedford;Saashi A Bedford;Min Tae M Park;Min Tae M Park;Gabriel A Devenyi;Gabriel A Devenyi;Stephanie Tullo;Stephanie Tullo

  • Large-scale mapping of cortical alterations in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: Convergence with idiopathic psychosis and effects of deletion size.

    Daqiang Sun;Daqiang Sun;Christopher R. K. Ching;Christopher R. K. Ching;Christopher R. K. Ching;Amy Lin;Amy Lin;Jennifer K. Forsyth;Jennifer K. Forsyth

  • Intrinsic excitation-inhibition imbalance affects medial prefrontal cortex differently in autistic men versus women.

    S Trakoshis;S Trakoshis;P Martínez-Cañada;F Rocchi;C Canella

  • White matter microstructural abnormalities in the frontal lobe of adults with antisocial personality disorder

    Frederick Sundram;Frederick Sundram;Quinton Deeley;Sagari Sarkar;Eileen Daly

  • Frontal networks in adults with autism spectrum disorder

    Marco Catani;Flavio Dell’Acqua;Sanja Budisavljevic;Henrietta Howells

  • The mental health of individuals referred for assessment of autism spectrum disorder in adulthood: A clinic report:

    Ailsa J. Russell;Clodagh M. Murphy;Ellie Wilson;Nicola Gillan

  • Reduced subcortical glutamate/glutamine in adults with autism spectrum disorders: a [ 1 H]MRS study

    Jamie Horder;T Lavender;M A Mendez;R O'Gorman

  • Comparison of ICD-10R, DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 in an adult autism spectrum disorder diagnostic clinic.

    C. Ellie Wilson;C. Ellie Wilson;Nicola Gillan;Nicola Gillan;Deborah Spain;Deborah Spain;Dene Robertson

  • Influence of X chromosome and hormones on human brain development : A magnetic resonance imaging and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study of turner syndrome

    William J. Cutter;Eileen M. Daly;Dene M.W. Robertson;Xavier A. Chitnis

  • Does sex influence the diagnostic evaluation of autism spectrum disorder in adults

    C. Ellie Wilson;C. Ellie Wilson;C. Ellie Wilson;Clodagh M. Murphy;Grainne McAlonan;Dene M. Robertson

  • Altered Integrity of Perisylvian Language Pathways in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Auditory Hallucinations

    Marco Catani;Michael C. Craig;Stephanie J. Forkel;Richard Kanaan

  • The neuroprotective effects of estrogen on the aging brain.

    Ray Norbury;William J Cutter;Jacqueline Compton;Dene M Robertson

  • Unsupervised data-driven stratification of mentalizing heterogeneity in autism

    Michael V. Lombardo;Meng-Chuan Lai;Bonnie Auyeung;Rosemary J. Holt

  • Frontotemporal white-matter microstructural abnormalities in adolescents with conduct disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study.

    S. Sarkar;M. C. Craig;M. Catani;F. Dell'acqua

  • Women with autistic-spectrum disorder: magnetic resonance imaging study of brain anatomy

    Michael C. Craig;Shahid H. Zaman;Eileen M. Daly;William J. Cutter

  • In vivo brain anatomy of adult males with Fragile X syndrome: an MRI study.

    Brian P. Hallahan;Brian P. Hallahan;Brian P. Hallahan;Michael C. Craig;Fiona Toal;Eileen M. Daly

  • Perinatal risk factors for neonaticide and infant homicide: can we identify those at risk?

    Michael Craig

Frequent Co-Authors

Eileen Daly
Eileen Daly King's College London
Michael V. Lombardo
Michael V. Lombardo Italian Institute of Technology
Meng-Chuan Lai
Meng-Chuan Lai Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
Quinton Deeley
Quinton Deeley King's College London
Marco Catani
Marco Catani King's College London
Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore King's College London
Daniel Brandeis
Daniel Brandeis University of Zurich
Carrie E. Bearden
Carrie E. Bearden University of California, Los Angeles
Bhismadev Chakrabarti
Bhismadev Chakrabarti University of Reading

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