Lucina Q. Uddin is an American cognitive neuroscientist who is a professor at the

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. Her research investigates the relationship between brain connectivity and cognition in typical and atypical development using network neuroscience approaches.

Early life and education

Uddin was born in

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. Her parents immigrated with her to the

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when she was less than one year old, and Uddin spent her childhood in

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. She was an undergraduate student at the

, where she majored in neuroscience and minored in philosophy. She stayed at UCLA for graduate school, where she explored neural correlates of self-recognition working with Eran Zaidel and Marco Iacoboni. During her graduate studies she worked alongside Susan Y. Bookheimer and Mirella Dapretto on neuroimaging studies to better understand autism spectrum disorder. She moved to

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as a postdoctoral scholar, where she worked with

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in the Child Study Center. In 2008 she continued her postdoctoral studies at

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, where she worked in the research group of Vinod Menon.

Research and career

Uddin was Associate Professor in the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Division which she created in the Department of Psychology at the

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. She directs the Brain Connectivity and Cognition Laboratory, which makes use of neuroimaging to better understand the relationship between neural connectivity and cognition. At the University of Miami, Uddin established a graduate program in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience. In 2018, she was appointed a

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Azrieli Global Scholar. Her current research examines brain network dynamics and cognitive flexibility in

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s. Uddin returned to University of California, Los Angeles in 2021, where she was appointed Professor and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Analysis Core at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior. Her lab uses

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and

diffusion tensor Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI or DW-MRI) is the use of specific MRI sequences as well as software that generates images from the resulting data that uses the diffusion of water molecules to generate contrast in MR images. It ...

imaging data to examine large-scale brain networks, and how these networks support executive function.

Awards and honors

* 2013 International Society for Autism Research Slifka Award * 2015 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Grant *2015 NIMH Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists * 2017 Organization for Human Brain Mapping Young Investigator Award * 2017 USERN Prize in Medical sciences *2018 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Azrieli Global Scholar - Brain, Mind & Consciousness Program *2021 Organization for Human Brain Mapping Diversity & Inclusivity Champion Award

Selected publications

Books

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References

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