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Neuroscience

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39
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11197
World Ranking
8208
National Ranking
3518

Psychology

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39
Citations
11160
World Ranking
8403
National Ranking
4484

Overview

Rajesh K. Kana is affiliated with the University of Alabama in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, with an emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and genetics.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as autism spectrum disorder research, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, functional brain connectivity studies, behavioral and psychological studies, face recognition and perception, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, as well as EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Rajesh K. Kana include Haley M. Bednarz, Despina Stavrinos, Kaitlyn E. May, Smitha Karavallil Achuthan, and Meagan E. Beckerson.

Rajesh K. Kana has contributed multiple publications to prominent venues, including:

  • Autism Research
  • Child Neuropsychology
  • Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Current Psychiatry Reports

Recent publications by Rajesh K. Kana include:

  • Frontoparietal Network in Executive Functioning in Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2020, Autism Research
  • The Mid-Fusiform Sulcus in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Establishing a Novel Anatomical Landmark Related to Face Processing, 2020, Autism Research
  • Metacognition and behavioral regulation predict distinct aspects of social functioning in autism spectrum disorder, 2020, Child Neuropsychology
  • Amplitude of low frequency fluctuations during resting state fMRI in autistic children, 2022, Autism Research
  • "Unrest while Resting"? Brain entropy in autism spectrum disorder, 2021, Brain Research

Best Publications

  • Functional and anatomical cortical underconnectivity in autism: Evidence from an fMRI study of an executive function task and corpus callosum morphometry

    Marcel Adam Just;Vladimir L. Cherkassky;Timothy A. Keller;Rajesh K. Kana

  • Functional connectivity in a baseline resting-state network in autism.

    Vladimir L. Cherkassky;Rajesh K. Kana;Timothy A. Keller;Marcel Adam Just

  • Sentence comprehension in autism: thinking in pictures with decreased functional connectivity

    Rajesh K. Kana;Timothy A. Keller;Vladimir L. Cherkassky;Nancy J. Minshew

  • Autism as a neural systems disorder: a theory of frontal-posterior underconnectivity.

    Marcel Adam Just;Timothy A. Keller;Vicente L. Malave;Rajesh K. Kana

  • Inhibitory control in high-functioning autism: decreased activation and underconnectivity in inhibition networks.

    Rajesh K. Kana;Timothy A. Keller;Nancy J. Minshew;Marcel Adam Just

  • fMRI Investigation of Working Memory for Faces in Autism: Visual Coding and Underconnectivity with Frontal Areas

    Hideya Koshino;Rajesh K. Kana;Timothy A. Keller;Vladimir L. Cherkassky

  • The impact of atypical sensory processing on social impairments in autism spectrum disorder.

    Melissa D. Thye;Haley M. Bednarz;Abbey J. Herringshaw;Emma B. Sartin

  • Atypical frontal-posterior synchronization of Theory of Mind regions in autism during mental state attribution.

    Rajesh K. Kana;Timothy A. Keller;Vladimir L. Cherkassky;Nancy J. Minshew

  • Theory of Mind disruption and recruitment of the right hemisphere during narrative comprehension in autism

    Robert A. Mason;Diane L. Williams;Diane L. Williams;Rajesh K. Kana;Nancy J. Minshew

  • A developmental study of the structural integrity of white matter in autism

    Timothy A. Keller;Rajesh K. Kana;Marcel Adam Just

  • The Implications of Brain Connectivity in the Neuropsychology of Autism

    Jose O. Maximo;Elyse J. Cadena;Rajesh K. Kana

  • Disrupted cortical connectivity theory as an explanatory model for autism spectrum disorders.

    Rajesh K. Kana;Lauren E. Libero;Marie S. Moore

  • Functional Brain Networks and White Matter Underlying Theory-of-Mind in Autism

    Rajesh K. Kana;Lauren E. Libero;Christi P. Hu;Hrishikesh D. Deshpande

  • Cortical underconnectivity coupled with preserved visuospatial cognition in autism: Evidence from an fMRI study of an embedded figures task.

    Saudamini Roy Damarla;Timothy A. Keller;Rajesh K. Kana;Rajesh K. Kana;Vladimir L. Cherkassky

  • Identification of neural connectivity signatures of autism using machine learning.

    Gopikrishna Deshpande;Lauren Libero;Karthik Ramakrishnan Sreenivasan;Hrishikesh Deshpande

  • Neuroanatomical and neurofunctional markers of social cognition in autism spectrum disorder

    Michelle A. Patriquin;Michelle A. Patriquin;Thomas DeRamus;Lauren E. Libero;Angela Laird

  • Brain connectivity in autism.

    Rajesh K. Kana;Lucina Q. Uddin;Tal Kenet;Diane Chugani

  • Progress and roadblocks in the search for brain-based biomarkers of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    L Q Uddin;D R Dajani;W Voorhies;H Bednarz

  • Aberrant functioning of the theory-of-mind network in children and adolescents with autism

    Rajesh K. Kana;Jose O. Maximo;Diane L. Williams;Timothy A. Keller

  • Multimodal neuroimaging based classification of autism spectrum disorder using anatomical, neurochemical, and white matter correlates.

    Lauren E. Libero;Thomas P. DeRamus;Adrienne C. Lahti;Gopikrishna Deshpande

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel Adam Just
Marcel Adam Just Carnegie Mellon University
Timothy A. Keller
Timothy A. Keller Carnegie Mellon University
Nancy J. Minshew
Nancy J. Minshew University of Pittsburgh
Laura Grofer Klinger
Laura Grofer Klinger University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gopikrishna Deshpande
Gopikrishna Deshpande Auburn University
Roy C. Martin
Roy C. Martin University of Alabama at Birmingham
Lucina Q. Uddin
Lucina Q. Uddin University of California, Los Angeles
Adrienne C. Lahti
Adrienne C. Lahti University of Alabama at Birmingham
Susan W. White
Susan W. White University of Alabama
R. Frank Kooy
R. Frank Kooy University of Antwerp

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