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Neural Signatures of Treatment Response

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As a field, clinical research is increasingly moving toward the goal of precision medicine (Insel 2014), an initiative that highlights the importance of taking into consideration individual differences from the genetic to behavioral level when formulating effective treatment plans. Recent advancements have increasingly adopted an interdisciplinary approach to overcome two major barriers: (1) to better characterize how a treatment can elicit change at the individual level, and (2) to predict whowill most likely respond to the intervention. Successful integration of neuroimaging techniques and behavioral measures have the potential to guide identification of sensitive and objective biomarkers that can reflect and predict response to specific evidence-based treatment models in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). By integrating knowledge from social and cognitive neuroscience that have shown atypical neural response among individuals with ASD when processing...

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    Jiedi Lei & Pamela E. Ventola

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Lei, J., Ventola, P.E. (2017). Neural Signatures of Treatment Response. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_102192-1

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