Lucina Q. Uddin

Director, Brain Connectivity and Cognition Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles
Contributing editor, The Transmitter

Lucina Q. Uddin is professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research uses tools from network neuroscience to study typical and atypical cognitive and brain development.

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Brain imaging

By Lucina Q. Uddin

3 January 2024

5 min read

An abstract illustration of boxes connected by lines

Name this network: Addressing huge inconsistencies across studies

Entrenched practices have stymied efforts to build a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks. But a new tool to standardize brain-imaging findings could bring us a step closer.

Brain imaging

Name this network: Addressing huge inconsistencies across studies

By Lucina Q. Uddin

3 January 2024 | 5 min read

Spectrum

By Jonathan Moens

11 August 2020

7 min read

Rethinking ‘noise’ in autism research

Lucina Uddin says researchers should be cautious when analyzing their findings, because 'noisy' data may actually hold important information about brain functioning.

Spectrum

Rethinking ‘noise’ in autism research

By Jonathan Moens

11 August 2020 | 7 min read

Spectrum

By Lucina Q. Uddin

4 December 2018

6 min read

Peer review of methods before study’s onset may benefit science

'Registered reports' — a type of paper in which experimental protocols are reviewed before the study begins — may make neuroscience studies more rigorous and reproducible.

Spectrum