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AutismRigidPercept

Investigation and modification of atypical dynamic brain activity underlying perceptual inflexibility of autism spectrum disorders

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON 

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address: GOWER STREET
city: LONDON
postcode: WC1E 6BT
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 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Project website https://sites.google.com/site/takamitsuwatanabesite/projects
 Total cost 195˙454 €
 EC max contribution 195˙454 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2014
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST
 Starting year 2015
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2015-05-01   to  2017-07-31

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1    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON UK (LONDON) coordinator 195˙454.00

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 Project objective

Perceptual and cognitive inflexibility is considered to underlie the repetitive and restricted behaviours of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, despite its severe effects on daily life of autistic individuals, the biological basis of these ASD core symptoms remain little known. In this project, I will investigate the neural mechanisms behind this fundamental mental inflexibility of ASD by examining neural activity during bistable perception, which is thought to be suitable for evaluation of such mental and perceptual rigidity. To detect neural responses from the brains of autistic individuals during such fluctuating perceptual experience, I will empirically calculate the energy landscape of brain activity from non-invasive measurements of brain activity and numerically simulate activity transition on the energy surface. Given the explanatory power of this method demonstrated by my preliminary data, this project is expected to provide the first empirical evidence for autistic impairments in dynamic brain activity that underlies the mental inflexibility of ASD. Furthermore, successful completion of this main project will provide insight for a novel non-invasive intervention protocol to mitigate such autistic cognitive rigidity, which will be subsequently tested within this research project. I believe that this project has the potential to provide a novel integrative perspective to understand autistic cognitive inflexibility and presents a promising approach to modify these relatively overlooked symptoms.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
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2015 Takamitsu Watanabe, Geraint Rees
Age-associated changes in rich-club organisation in autistic and neurotypical human brains
published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/srep16152
Scientific Reports 5/1 2019-06-13
2017 Takamitsu Watanabe, Geraint Rees
Brain network dynamics in high-functioning individuals with autism
published pages: 16048, ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16048
Nature Communications 8 2019-06-13
2016 Takamitsu Watanabe, Geraint Rees
Anatomical imbalance between cortical networks in autism
published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/srep31114
Scientific Reports 6/1 2019-06-13
2017 Takahiro Ezaki, Takamitsu Watanabe, Masayuki Ohzeki, Naoki Masuda
Energy landscape analysis of neuroimaging data
published pages: 20160287, ISSN: 1364-503X, DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0287
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 375/2096 2019-06-13

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