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The Neurobiological Basis of Heterogeneous Social and Motor Deficits in ASD

ReHaB Core ⟩ CeNEC Lab ⟩

This goal of this study is to better understand the relationship between variation in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) along both social and motor dimensions by showing how these variations, using functional MRI imaging, relate to functioning in social and motor brain networks and functional connectivity between them.

Funding

Type	Source	Number	Amount
Federal	Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)	1 R01 HD079432-01A1	$2,151,952

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