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The brain’s neurons, connections, and lobes don’t work in isolation. Functions and information are processed by many different areas of the brain that are connected by axons (“white matter”) and other structures that form circuits of information exchange. When these circuits are interrupted, whether by seizures or by epilepsy surgery, issues with attention, social cognition, and learning can occur. Understanding how your child’s brain circuits have been interrupted will help you advocate for their educational success, as well as help you understand their behaviors and challenges. Here, Dr. Lucina Uddin discusses brain circuits at the 2017 Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Conference and Family Reunion.

Dr. Lucina Uddin’s research focuses on the relationship between brain connectivity and cognition in typical and atypical development. Within a cognitive neuroscience framework, her research combines functional connectivity analyses of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data and structural connectivity analyses of diffusion tensor imaging data to examine the organization of large-scale brain networks supporting attention and social cognition. Her current research focuses on understanding dynamic network interactions underlying social information processing in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

Dr. Uddin was one of several neuroscientists who presented at the 2014 scientific symposium on neuroplasticity after cerebral hemispherectomy organized and hosted by The Brain Recovery Project.