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      Improving effect size estimation and statistical power with multi-echo fMRI and its impact on understanding the neural systems supporting mentalizing 

      Lombardo,Michael V.; Auyeung, Bonnie; Holt, R. J.; Waldman, Jack; Ruigrok,Amber N. V.; Mooney, Natasha; Bullmore,Edward T.; Baron-Cohen,Simon; Kundu, Prantik (2016)
      Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research is routinely criticized for being statistically underpowered due to characteristically small sample sizes and much larger sample sizes are being increasingly recommended. ...
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      Oxytocin increases eye contact during a real-time, naturalistic social interaction in males with and without autism 

      Auyeung, Bonnie; Lombardo, Michael V.; Heinrichs, M.; Chakrabarti, B.; Sule, A.; Deakin, J. B.; Bethlehem, R. A. I.; Dickens, L.; Mooney, Natasha; Sipple, J. A. N.; Thiemann, P.; Baron-Cohen, Simon (2015)
      Autism spectrum conditions (autism) affect ~1% of the population and are characterized by deficits in social communication. Oxytocin has been widely reported to affect social-communicative function and its neural underpinnings. ...
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      Sex-specific impact of prenatal androgens on social brain default mode subsystems 

      Lombardo, Michael V.; Auyeung, Bonnie; Pramparo, Tiziano; Courraud, Jérémie; Holt, Rosemary J.; Waldman, Jack; Ruigrok, Amber N. V.; Mooney, Natasha; Bethlehem, Richard A. I.; Lai, Meng-Chuan; Kundu, Prantik; Bullmore, Edward T.; Mandel, Jean-Louis; Piton, Amélie; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Quartier, Angélique (2018)
      Early-onset neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., autism) affect males more frequently than females. Androgens may play a role in this male-bias by sex-differentially impacting early prenatal brain development, particularly ...