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Neuroscience

D-Index
69
Citations
23325
World Ranking
2585
National Ranking
99

Psychology

D-Index
69
Citations
21148
World Ranking
2347
National Ranking
29

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognition
  • Psychiatry

His scientific interests lie mostly in Autism, Asperger syndrome, Cognition, Neuroscience and Developmental psychology. His Autism research includes elements of Sex characteristics, Intellectual disability and Audiology. He works mostly in the field of Asperger syndrome, limiting it down to topics relating to Clinical psychology and, in certain cases, High-functioning autism and Severity of illness.

His Cognition study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Autism-spectrum quotient and Empathy. His White matter research extends to Neuroscience, which is thematically connected. His research integrates issues of Penetrance, Etiology and Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in his study of Developmental psychology.

His most cited work include:

  • A meta-analysis of sex differences in human brain structure (551 citations)
  • Why Are Autism Spectrum Conditions More Prevalent in Males (424 citations)
  • Sex/Gender Differences and Autism: Setting the Scene for Future Research (424 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Michael V. Lombardo spends much of his time researching Autism, Neuroscience, Autism spectrum disorder, Developmental psychology and Cognitive psychology. His Autism study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Resting state fMRI, Audiology, Cognition and Clinical psychology. His work in Cognition addresses subjects such as Asperger syndrome, which are connected to disciplines such as High-functioning autism.

His study in Neuroscience is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Phenotype, Gene and Transcriptome. His studies in Autism spectrum disorder integrate themes in fields like White matter, Genetic heterogeneity, Neuroimaging and Neuropsychology. His Developmental psychology research also works with subjects such as

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging which intersects with area such as Theory of mind,
  • Cohort which intersects with area such as Observational study.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Autism (93.72%)
  • Neuroscience (49.74%)
  • Autism spectrum disorder (52.88%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2019-2021)?

  • Autism (93.72%)
  • Autism spectrum disorder (52.88%)
  • Neuroscience (49.74%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His main research concerns Autism, Autism spectrum disorder, Neuroscience, Developmental psychology and Neuroimaging. His specific area of interest is Autism, where Michael V. Lombardo studies Neurotypical. His Autism spectrum disorder research incorporates elements of White matter, Audiology, Superior temporal gyrus and Intelligence quotient.

His work in Neuroscience covers topics such as Androgen which are related to areas like Causes of autism and Default mode network. His work on Mother child interaction as part of general Developmental psychology research is frequently linked to Correlation, bridging the gap between disciplines. His study looks at the relationship between Functional magnetic resonance imaging and topics such as Theory of mind, which overlap with Neuropsychology.

Between 2019 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Large-scale analyses of the relationship between sex, age and intelligence quotient heterogeneity and cortical morphometry in autism spectrum disorder. (48 citations)
  • Large-scale analyses of the relationship between sex, age and intelligence quotient heterogeneity and cortical morphometry in autism spectrum disorder. (48 citations)
  • Intrinsic excitation-inhibition imbalance affects medial prefrontal cortex differently in autistic men versus women. (18 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognition
  • Psychiatry

Michael V. Lombardo mostly deals with Autism, Neuroscience, Autism spectrum disorder, Androgen and Developmental psychology. His research in Autism intersects with topics in Downregulation and upregulation, Affect and Cell biology. When carried out as part of a general Neuroscience research project, his work on Postmortem studies is frequently linked to work in Synaptic pruning, Synaptopathy and TSC2, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of study.

Superior temporal gyrus, Audiology, Clinical heterogeneity and Intelligence quotient is closely connected to Neuroimaging in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Autism spectrum disorder. His Androgen research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Testosterone, Causes of autism and Default mode network. The study incorporates disciplines such as Social relation, Functional magnetic resonance imaging and Anticipation in addition to Developmental psychology.

Best Publications

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan

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  • Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from developmental social neuroscience

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Helen Tager-Flusberg;Michael V. Lombardo

  • A meta-analysis of sex differences in human brain structure

    Amber Nathalie Ruigrok;Gholamreza Salimi-Khorshidi;Meng-Chuan Lai;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • Sex/Gender Differences and Autism: Setting the Scene for Future Research

    Meng-Chuan Lai;Michael V. Lombardo;Bonnie Auyeung;Bhismadev Chakrabarti

  • Why Are Autism Spectrum Conditions More Prevalent in Males

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Michael Lombardo;Bonnie Auyeung;Emma Ashwin

  • Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 UK Biobank Participants

    Stuart J Ritchie;Simon R Cox;Xueyi Shen;Michael V Lombardo;Michael V Lombardo

  • A Behavioral Comparison of Male and Female Adults with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions

    Meng-Chuan Lai;Michael V. Lombardo;Greg Pasco;Amber N. V. Ruigrok

  • Quantifying and exploring camouflaging in men and women with autism

    Meng-Chuan Lai;Michael V Lombardo;Amber Nv Ruigrok;Bhismadev Chakrabarti;Bhismadev Chakrabarti

  • Self-referential cognition and empathy in autism.

    Michael V. Lombardo;Jennifer L. Barnes;Sally J. Wheelwright;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • Elevated fetal steroidogenic activity in autism

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Bonnie Auyeung;Bent Nørgaard-Pedersen;David M. Hougaard

  • Big data approaches to decomposing heterogeneity across the autism spectrum

    Michael V. Lombardo;Michael V. Lombardo;Meng-Chuan Lai;Meng-Chuan Lai;Meng-Chuan Lai;Simon Baron-Cohen;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • Shared neural circuits for mentalizing about the self and others

    Michael V. Lombardo;Bhismadev Chakrabarti;Edward T. Bullmore;Sally J. Wheelwright

  • Subgrouping the autism "spectrum": reflections on DSM-5.

    Meng-Chuan Lai;Michael V. Lombardo;Bhismadev Chakrabarti;Bhismadev Chakrabarti;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • Atypical Neural Self-Representation in Autism.

    Michael V. Lombardo;Bhismadev Chakrabarti;Bhismadev Chakrabarti;Edward T. Bullmore;Susan A. Sadek

  • Fetal Testosterone Influences Sexually Dimorphic Gray Matter in the Human Brain

    Michael V. Lombardo;Emma Ashwin;Emma Ashwin;Bonnie Auyeung;Bhismadev Chakrabarti;Bhismadev Chakrabarti

  • Biological sex affects the neurobiology of autism

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

  • Specialization of right temporo-parietal junction for mentalizing and its relation to social impairments in autism.

    Michael V. Lombardo;Bhismadev Chakrabarti;Edward T. Bullmore;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • Multi-echo fMRI: A review of applications in fMRI denoising and analysis of BOLD signals

    Prantik Kundu;Valerie Voon;Priti Balchandani;Michael V. Lombardo

  • Brain anatomy and its relationship to behavior in adults with autism spectrum disorder: a multicenter magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Christine Ecker;John Suckling;Sean C. Deoni;Michael V. Lombardo

  • The ASD Living Biology: from cell proliferation to clinical phenotype

    Eric Courchesne;Tiziano Pramparo;Vahid H. Gazestani;Michael V. Lombardo;Michael V. Lombardo

  • The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test: Complete Absence of Typical Sex Difference in ~400 Men and Women with Autism

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Daniel C. Bowen;Rosemary J. Holt;Carrie Allison

  • Autism - in 100 words

    Simon Baron-Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
Meng-Chuan Lai
Meng-Chuan Lai Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Bhismadev Chakrabarti
Bhismadev Chakrabarti University of Reading
Bonnie Auyeung
Bonnie Auyeung University of Edinburgh
Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore King's College London
Michael C. Craig
Michael C. Craig King's College London
Prantik Kundu
Prantik Kundu Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Sven Bölte
Sven Bölte Karolinska Institute
Sally Wheelwright
Sally Wheelwright University of Sussex
Eric Courchesne
Eric Courchesne University of California, San Diego

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