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Seminar · Developmental Neuroscience
A transdiagnostic data-driven study of children’s behaviour and the functional connectome
Jonathan Jones · Universiy of Cambridge, MRC CBU
Wed, Nov 24, 2021 · 16:00 UTC
Behavioural difficulties are seen as hallmarks of many neurodevelopmental conditions. Differences in functional brain organisation have been observed in these conditions, but little is known about how they are related to a child’s profile of behavioural difficulties. We investigated whether behavioural difficulties are associated with how the brain is functionally organised in an intentionally heterogeneous and transdiagnostic sample of 957 children aged 5-15. We used consensus community detection to derive data-driven profiles of behavioural difficulties and constructed functional connectomes