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.
Lucina Q. Uddin
Director, Brain Connectivity and Cognition Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles
Contributing editor, The Transmitter
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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.
Name this network: Addressing huge inconsistencies across studies
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Lucina Q. Uddin
3 January 2024 | 5 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.
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'Registered reports' — a type of paper in which experimental protocols are reviewed before the study begins — may make neuroscience studies more rigorous and reproducible.
Peer review of methods before study’s onset may benefit science
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4 December 2018 | 6 min read
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