An Umbrella Review of the Fusion of fMRI and AI in Autism

D Giansanti - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The role of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is assuming an increasingly
central role in autism diagnosis. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the realm of …

Peripartum effects of synthetic oxytocin: the good, the bad, and the unknown

M Rashidi, E Maier, S Dekel, M Sütterlin… - Neuroscience & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The first clinical applications of oxytocin (OT) were in obstetrics as a hormone to start and
speed up labor and to control postpartum hemorrhage. Discoveries in the 1960s and 1970s …

Neural correlates of perceptual switching and their association with empathy and alexithymia in individuals with and without autism spectrum disorder

S Tei, T Itahashi, YY Aoki, M Kubota… - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often show limited empathy (poor
recognition of others' emotions) and high alexithymia (poor recognition of own emotions and …

Impairment in reading negative social cues extends beyond the face in autism

LL Lott-Sandkamp, FB Spengler, M Heinrichs - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nonverbal expressions are essential to regulating social communication and interaction.
Impaired emotion recognition from facial expressions has been linked to various psychiatric …

Modulation of the thermosensory system by oxytocin

U Zayan, L Caccialupi Da Prato, F Muscatelli… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Oxytocin (OT) is a neurohormone involved early in neurodevelopment and is implicated in
multiple functions, including sensory modulation. Evidence of such modulation has been …

At the head and heart of oxytocin's stress-regulatory neural and cardiac effects: a chronic administration RCT in children with autism

K Alaerts, N Daniels, M Moerkerke… - Psychotherapy and …, 2023 - karger.com
Introduction: Intranasal administration of oxytocin presents a promising new approach to
reduce disability associated with an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis. Previous …

The dopamine hypothesis of autism spectrum disorder: A comprehensive analysis of the evidence.

D Pavăl - International Review of Neurobiology, 2023 - europepmc.org
Despite intensive research into the etiopathogenesis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD),
limited progress has been achieved so far. Among the plethora of models seeking to clarify …

Baculovirus display of peptides and proteins for medical applications

AP Rodríguez-Hernández, D Martínez-Flores… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Baculoviridae is a large family of arthropod-infective viruses. Recombinant baculoviruses
have many applications, the best known is as a system for large scale protein production in …

Identification of autism spectrum disorder using multiple functional connectivity-based graph convolutional network

C Ma, W Li, S Ke, J Lv, T Zhou, L Zou - Medical & Biological Engineering & …, 2024 - Springer
Presently, the combination of graph convolutional networks (GCN) with resting-state
functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) data is a promising approach for early …

Chronic oxytocin improves neural decoupling at rest in children with autism: an exploratory RCT

K Alaerts, M Moerkerke, N Daniels… - Journal of Child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Shifts in peak frequencies of oscillatory neural rhythms are put forward as a
principal mechanism by which cross‐frequency coupling/decoupling is implemented in the …