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Michael E. Behen is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields in medicine and neuroscience with an emphasis on neuroimaging and neurological disorders affecting pediatric populations.

The main fields of their scholarly work include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, subfields of study that characterize their research output are:

  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Surgery
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Neurology

Michael E. Behen's major research topics focus on:

  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Vascular Malformations and Hemangiomas
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
  • Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders

Their recent scholarly articles highlight investigations into language function, neurological syndromes, and pediatric neuroimaging. These include:

  • Altered efficiency of white matter connections for language function in children with language disorder, 2020, Brain and Language
  • Deep Venous Remodeling in Unilateral Sturge-Weber Syndrome: Robust Hemispheric Differences and Clinical Correlates, 2022, Pediatric Neurology
  • Deep reasoning neural network analysis to predict language deficits from psychometry-driven DWI connectome of young children with persistent language concerns, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Feasibility and Potential Diagnostic Value of Noncontrast Brain MRI in Nonsedated Children With Sturge-Weber Syndrome and Healthy Siblings, 2024, Journal of Child Neurology
  • Quantitative phenotyping of verbal and non-verbal cognitive impairment using diffusion-weighted MRI connectome: Preliminary study of the crowding effect in children with left hemispheric epilepsy, 2024, Epilepsy & Behavior

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Michael E. Behen include:

  • Jeong-Won Jeong
  • Csaba Juhász
  • Aimée F. Luat
  • Min-Hee Lee
  • Nore Gjolaj

Their publications most commonly appear in the following venues:

  • Pediatric Neurology
  • Brain and Language
  • Journal of Child Neurology
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Human Brain Mapping

Best Publications

  • Local brain functional activity following early deprivation: a study of postinstitutionalized Romanian orphans.

    Harry T. Chugani;Michael E. Behen;Otto Muzik;Csaba Juhász

  • Developmental changes in brain serotonin synthesis capacity in autistic and nonautistic children.

    Diane C. Chugani;Otto Muzik;Michael Behen;Robert Rothermel

  • Abnormal brain connectivity in children after early severe socioemotional deprivation: a diffusion tensor imaging study.

    Thomas J. Eluvathingal;Harry T. Chugani;Michael E. Behen;Csaba Juhász

  • Altered serotonin synthesis in the dentatothalamocortical pathway in autistic boys

    Diane C. Chugani;Otto Muzik;Robert Rothermel;Michael E. Behen

  • Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Frontal Lobe in Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Senthil K. Sundaram;Ajay Kumar;Malek I. Makki;Michael E. Behen

  • Significance of abnormalities in developmental trajectory and asymmetry of cortical serotonin synthesis in autism.

    Sreenivasa R. Chandana;Michael E. Behen;Csaba Juhász;Otto Muzik

  • Brain mapping of language and auditory perception in high-functioning autistic adults: a PET study.

    R.-A. Müller;M. E. Behen;R. D. Rothermel;D. C. Chugani

  • Alterations in Frontal Lobe Tracts and Corpus Callosum in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Ajay Kumar;Senthil K. Sundaram;Lalitha Sivaswamy;Michael E. Behen

  • Evidence of altered energy metabolism in autistic children.

    Diane C. Chugani;Bhavani S. Sundram;Michael Behen;Mei-Li Lee

  • Autism in tuberous sclerosis complex is related to both cortical and subcortical dysfunction

    E. Asano;Diane C. Chugani;O. Muzik;M. Behen

  • Altered Water Diffusivity in Cortical Association Tracts in Children with Early Deprivation Identified with Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS)

    Rajkumar Munian Govindan;Michael E. Behen;Emily Helder;Malek I. Makki

  • Receptive and expressive language activations for sentences: a PET study.

    Ralph Axel Müller;Robert D. Rothermel;Michael E. Behen;Otto Muzik

  • Impairment of dentato-thalamo-cortical pathway in autistic men: language activation data from positron emission tomography.

    Ralph Axel Müller;Diane C. Chugani;Michael E. Behen;Robert D. Rothermel

  • Sturge-Weber syndrome: correlation between clinical course and FDG PET findings.

    J. S. Lee;E. Asano;O. Muzik;D. C. Chugani

  • Cerebellar lesions in tuberous sclerosis complex: neurobehavioral and neuroimaging correlates.

    Thomas J. Eluvathingal;Michael E. Behen;Harry T. Chugani;James Janisse

  • Language organization in patients with early and late left-hemisphere lesion : a PET study

    R.-a Müller;R.D Rothermel;M.e Behen;O Muzik

  • Efficacy of Low-Dose Buspirone for Restricted and Repetitive Behavior in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Randomized Trial.

    Diane C. Chugani;Harry T. Chugani;Max Wiznitzer;Sumit Parikh

  • Microstructural abnormalities of striatum and thalamus in children with Tourette syndrome.

    Malek I. Makki;Michael Behen;Arpi Bhatt;Benjamin Wilson

  • Altered fronto-striato-thalamic connectivity in children with Tourette syndrome assessed with diffusion tensor MRI and probabilistic fiber tracking.

    Malek I. Makki;Rajkumar Munian Govindan;Benjamin J. Wilson;Michael E. Behen

  • Brain Organization of Language after Early Unilateral Lesion: A PET Study

    Ralph Axel Müller;Robert D. Rothermel;Michael E. Behen;Otto Muzik

  • A diffusion tensor imaging study of the cerebellar pathways in children with autism spectrum disorder.

    Lalitha Sivaswamy;Ajay Kumar;Deepa Rajan;Michael Behen

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry T. Chugani
Harry T. Chugani New York University
Csaba Juhász
Csaba Juhász Wayne State University
Diane C. Chugani
Diane C. Chugani Wayne State University
Ralph-Axel Müller
Ralph-Axel Müller San Diego State University
Eishi Asano
Eishi Asano Wayne State University
Sandeep Sood
Sandeep Sood Wayne State University
Gerard Tromp
Gerard Tromp Stellenbosch University
Helena Kuivaniemi
Helena Kuivaniemi Stellenbosch University
Gregory J. Moore
Gregory J. Moore Stanford University School of Medicine

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