Bhisma Chakrabarti
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Bhisma Chakrabarti
@bhisma.bsky.social
Autism researcher interested in individual differences in human behaviour and brain function.
University professor by day.
UK, India
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www.bhismalab.org
Reposted by Bhisma Chakrabarti
9/ Check out the actual study for many more analyses, e.g., phenotypic variation, scan parameters, signal to noise ratio, etc! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Thank you to the editor @meharpist.bsky.social and anonymous reviewers for the many helpful suggestions, which greatly improved the study.
Longer scans boost prediction and cut costs in brain-wide association studies - Nature
Although the number of participants is important for phenotypic prediction accuracy in brain-wide association studies using functional MRI, scanning for at least 30 min offers the greatest cost effect...
doi.org
July 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Welcome back, Dean!
November 22, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Interesting, look forward to reading it. Particularly interested to see the component of the similarities that can not be accounted for by similarities in diet within a community.
November 21, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Hi Fiona, good to see you here!
November 17, 2024 at 9:44 AM
More recently, we have been looking at the interrelationship of empathy and emotion regulation. Key papers: psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-... link.springer.com/article/10.1... (5/5)
November 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM
A longstanding area of our interest is empathy. One strand has examined the role of reward in shaping empathy related processes, and implications for autism. Key papers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... (4/5)
November 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM
The GutBrain project examines gut microbiota in relation to behaviour and brain function, with a focus on GABA. This project owes its origin to a lunchtime chat about bacteria producing GABA in the gut.. (and we found one in an in-vitro study too) academic.oup.com/jambio/artic... (3/5)
November 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM
STREAM is a digital platform made of observation and game based assessments to measure aspects of social behaviour, cognition, motor function, and sensory interests. The platform has been used in studying ~4000 children in India and Malawi bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/6... (2/5)
Scalable Transdiagnostic Early Assessment of Mental Health (STREAM): a study protocol
Introduction Early childhood development forms the foundations for functioning later in life. Thus, accurate monitoring of developmental trajectories is critical. However, such monitoring often relies...
bmjopen.bmj.com
November 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM
I would love to be added to this list - thanks!
November 12, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Thanks for starting this - would love to join this list!
November 12, 2024 at 9:07 AM