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Nouchine Hadjikhani
Professor
Department of Psychiatry and NeurochemistryAbout Nouchine Hadjikhani
Nouchine Hadjikhani, MD, PhD is Professor in Experimental Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, since 2019, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, where she has been Faculty since the late nineties. She is an author of more than 130 peer-review articles and 16 books, book chapters and other publications.
In her work, she has employed neuroanatomy, histology, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG) as well as behavioural methods, including eye-tracking and sensors, to study the normal and the diseased brain. Her present research is centred on two brain conditions that have in common an imbalance between brain’s excitatory and inhibitory systems: autism and migraine.
In the field of autism, she demonstrated that "low level" visual processing is normal in individuals with autism, ruling out a bottom-up deficit. She was also the first to provide data disproving a popular theory stating that individuals with autism are lacking the brain area devoted to face identification (the “fusiform face area”, or FFA). More recently, she demonstrated that affective empathy is preserved in individuals with autism. Her current work is dedicated to understanding the neural bases of the social difficulties in ASD, and to develop neural biomarkers that will help to objectify the effect of therapeutic approaches, both behavioural and pharmacological. Her latest research addresses the roots of eye-contact difficulties in autism, and how to improve them.
Professor Hadjikhani’s group has also done impressive work in the field of migraine visualizing the changes in neuronal activity during migraine aura. She has since then been studying long-term consequences of migraine on brain anatomy and function, and more recently has demonstrated that migraine attacks result in neuroinflammation in the brain.
For her outstanding research in the field of autism she shared the Leenaards Award in 2010 and received Niclas Öberg Life Watch Award in 2016.
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Bumetanide Treatment in 15 Children With Autism: A Randomised Waitlist-Control
Study
Elisabeth Fernell, Sara Landberg, Carmela Miniscalco, Rosanna Fagerudd, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Mats Johnson, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Christopher Gillberg
ACTA PAEDIATRICA - 2025 -
Signs of Cortical Inflammation in Migraine Measured with Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Registry for Migraine (REFORM)
Study
Rune H. Christensen, Håkan Ashina, Haidar M. Al-Khazali, Mario Ocampo-Pineda, Reza Rahmanzadeh, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Cristina Granziera, Faisal Mohammad Amin, Messoud Ashina
Annals of Neurology - 2025 -
Treatment of menopausal vasomotor symptoms and sensory issues in a 53-year-old autistic woman – a case
report
Agnieszka Rynkiewicz, Ewa Ferensztajn-Rochowiak, Rachel L. Moseley, Psy Julie M. Gamble-Turner, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Adeline Lacroix, Alicia Brewer Curran, Kristin Sohl, Dorota Darmochwał-Kolarz
Psychiatria i Psychologia Kliniczna - 2024 -
A novel end-to-end dual-camera system for eye gaze synchrony assessment in face-to-face
interaction
Max Thorsson, Martyna A Galazka, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Nouchine Hadjikhani
Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics - 2024 -
Pupil contagion variation with gaze, arousal, and autistic
traits
Martyna A Galazka, Max Thorsson, Johan Lundin Kleberg, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Jakob Åsberg Johnels
Scientific Reports - 2024 -
Visual attention modulates mu suppression during biological motion perception in autistic
individuals
Mohammad Saber Sotoodeh, Sarina Hui-Lin Chien, Nouchine Hadjikhani
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE - 2024 -
Differences in Cortical Morphology in People With and Without Migraine: A Registry for Migraine (REFORM) MRI
Study
Rune H. Christensen, Håkan Ashina, Haidar M. Al-Khazali, Yixin Zhang, Daniel Tolnai, Amanda H. Poulsen, Alessandro Cagol, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Cristina Granziera, Faisal Mohammad Amin, Messoud Ashina
Neurology - 2024 -
Influence of autistic traits and communication role on eye contact behavior during face-to-face
interaction.
Max Thorsson, Martyna A Galazka, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Nouchine Hadjikhani
Scientific Reports - 2024 -
Visuomotor tracking strategies in children: associations with neurodevelopmental
symptoms
Max Thorsson, Martyna A Galazka, Mats Johnson, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Nouchine Hadjikhani
Experimental Brain Research - 2024 -
Neuroimmune activation and increased brain aging in chronic pain patients after the COVID-19 pandemic
onset
Ludovica Brusaferri, Zeynab Alshelh, Jack H. Schnieders, Angelica Sandström, Mehrbod Mohammadian, Erin J. Morrissey, Minhae Kim, Courtney A. Chane, Grace C. Grmek, Jennifer P. Murphy, Julia Bialobrzewski, Alexa DiPietro, Julie Klinke, Yi Zhang, Angel Torrado-Carvajal, Nathaniel Mercaldo, Oluwaseun Akeju, Ona Wu, Bruce R. Rosen, Vitaly Napadow, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Marco L. Loggia
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - 2024 -
Sentence memory recall in adolescents: Effects of motor enactment, keyboarding, and handwriting during
encoding
Göran Söderlund, S. Torvanger, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Jakob Åsberg Johnels
Brain and Behavior - 2023 -
Machine learning for distinguishing saudi children with and without autism via eye-tracking
data
Hana Alarifi, Hesham Aldhalaan, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Jhan Alarifi, Guido Ascenso, Reem Alabdulaziz
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH - 2023 -
Self-reported eye contact sensitivity and face processing in chromosome 22q11.2 deletion
syndrome
Martyna A Galazka, Lena Wallin, Max Thorsson, Christopher Gillberg, Eva Billstedt, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Jakob Åsberg Johnels
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology - 2023 -
Overwhelmed by the man in the moon? Pareidolic objects provoke increased amygdala activation in
autism
Nouchine Hadjikhani, Jakob Åsberg Johnels
Cortex - 2023 -
A novel tablet-based motor coordination test performs on par with the Beery VMI subtest and offers superior temporal metrics: findings from children with pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric
syndrome.
Max Thorsson, Martyna A Galazka, Parisa Hajjari, Elisabeth Fernell, Jonathan Delafield-Butt, Christopher Gillberg, Mats Johnson, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Nouchine Hadjikhani
Experimental brain research - 2023 -
Discrepancy between high non-verbal intelligence and low accuracy at reading emotional expressions in the eyes reflects the magnitude of social-emotional difficulties in
autism
Nouchine Hadjikhani, Martyna A Galazka, T. Kenet, R. Joseph, Jakob Åsberg Johnels
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience - 2023 -
Left visual field bias during face perception aligns with individual differences in reading skills and is absent in
dyslexia
Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Martyna A Galazka, Maria Sundqvist, Nouchine Hadjikhani
British Journal of Educational Psychology - 2022 -
The trigeminal
pathways
L. M. Terrier, Nouchine Hadjikhani, C. Destrieux
Journal of Neurology - 2022 -
Data-driven analysis of gaze patterns in face perception: Methodological and clinical
contributions
P. Masulli, Martyna A Galazka, David Eberhard, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Christopher Gillberg, Eva Billstedt, Nouchine Hadjikhani, T. S. Andersen
Cortex - 2022 -
Imaging the inflammatory phenotype in
migraine
R. H. Christensen, C. Gollion, F. M. Amin, M. A. Moskowitz, Nouchine Hadjikhani, M. Ashina
Journal of Headache and Pain - 2022 -
Face Processing in School Children with Dyslexia: Neuropsychological and Eye-tracking
Findings
Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Maria Sundqvist, Martyna A Galazka
Developmental Neuropsychology - 2022 -
Development of a parent-reported screening tool for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID): Initial validation and prevalence in 4-7-year-old Japanese
children
Lisa Dinkler, Kahoko Yasumitsu-Lovell, M. Eitoku, M. Fujieda, N. Suganuma, Yuhei Hatakenaka, Nouchine Hadjikhani, R. Bryant-Waugh, Maria Råstam, Christopher Gillberg
Appetite - 2022 -
Choroid Plexus Volume in Multiple Sclerosis vs Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder A Retrospective, Cross-sectional
Analysis
J. Muller, T. Sinnecker, M. J. Wendebourg, R. Schlager, J. Kuhle, S. Schadelin, P. Benkert, T. Derfuss, P. Cattin, C. Jud, F. Spiess, M. Amann, T. Lincke, M. Barakovic, A. Cagol, C. Tsagkas, K. Parmar, A. K. Probstel, S. Reimann, S. Asseyer, A. Duchow, A. Brandt, K. Ruprecht, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Shoko Fukumoto, Misuru Watanabe, Katsuhisa Masaki, T. Matsushita, N. Isobe, J. I. Kira, L. Kappos, J. Wurfel, C. Granziera, F. Paul, O. Yaldizli
Neurology-Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation - 2022 -
The pandemic brain: Neuroinflammation in non-infected individuals during the COVID-19
pandemic
L. Brusaferri, Z. Alshelh, D. Martins, M. Kim, A. Weerasekera, H. Housman, E. J. Morrissey, P. C. Knight, K. A. Castro-Blanco, D. S. Albrecht, C. E. Tseng, N. R. Zürcher, E. M. Ratai, O. Akeju, M. M. Makary, C. Catana, N. D. Mercaldo, Nouchine Hadjikhani, M. Veronese, F. Turkheimer, B. R. Rosen, J. M. Hooker, M. L. Loggia
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - 2022 -
Age differences in Neural Activation to Face Trustworthiness: Voxel Pattern and Activation Level
Assessments
Yuchen Xie, John Ksander, Angela Gutchess, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Noreen Ward, Jasmine Boshyan, Leslie A. Zebrowitz
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience - 2021 -
Association of etiological factors across the extreme end and continuous variation in disordered eating in female Swedish
twins
Lisa Dinkler, M. J. Taylor, Maria Råstam, Nouchine Hadjikhani, C. M. Bulik, P. Lichtenstein, Christopher Gillberg, Sebastian Lundström
Psychological Medicine - 2021 -
Migraine: disease characterisation, biomarkers, and precision
medicine
M. Ashina, G. M. Terwindt, M. A. M. Al-Karagholi, I. de Boer, M. J. Lee, D. L. Hay, L. H. Schulte, Nouchine Hadjikhani, A. J. Sinclair, H. Ashina, T. J. Schwedt, P. J. Goadsby
The Lancet - 2021 -
Can you have a migraine aura without knowing
it?
Nouchine Hadjikhani, M. Vincent
Current Opinion in Neurology - 2021 -
Facial speech processing in children with and without
dyslexia
Martyna A Galazka, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Maria Sundqvist, Jakob Åsberg Johnels
Annals of Dyslexia - 2021 -
Machine learning analysis of pregnancy data enables early identification of a subpopulation of newborns with
ASD
H. Caly, H. Rabiei, P. Coste-Mazeau, S. Hantz, S. Alain, J. L. Eyraud, T. Chianea, C. Caly, D. Makowski, Nouchine Hadjikhani, E. Lemonnier, Y. Ben-Ari
Scientific Reports - 2021 -
Preserved action recognition in children with autism spectrum disorders: Evidence from an EEG and eye-tracking
study
M. S. Sotoodeh, H. Taheri-Torbati, Nouchine Hadjikhani, A. Lassalle
Psychophysiology - 2021 -
C-11 PBR28 MR-PET imaging reveals lower regional brain expression of translocator protein (TSPO) in young adult males with autism spectrum
disorder
N. R. Zurcher, M. L. Loggia, J. E. Mullett, C. Tseng, A. Bhanot, L. Richey, B. G. Hightower, C. Wu, A. J. Parmar, R. I. Butterfield, J. M. Dubois, D. B. Chonde, D. Izquierdo-Garcia, H. Y. Wey, C. Catana, Nouchine Hadjikhani, C. J. McDougle, J. M. Hooker
Molecular Psychiatry - 2021 -
Ultrahigh field in vivo characterization of microstructural abnormalities in the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala in
autism
E. Fischi-Gomez, G. Bonnier, N. Ward, C. Granziera, Nouchine Hadjikhani
European Journal of Neuroscience - 2021 -
Developing tolerance to eye contact in autism: A feasibility study with adults using behavioral, interview, and psychophysiological
data
Lisa Andreén, Martyna A Galazka, Nouchine Hadjikhani, S. Jeuris, P. Masulli, Jakob Åsberg Johnels
Psychology of Language and Communication - 2021 -
Visual perception in migraine: A narrative
review
Nouchine Hadjikhani, M. Vincent
Vision (Switzerland) - 2021 -
Anorexia nervosa and autism: a prospective twin cohort
study
Lisa Dinkler, Mark J. Taylor, Maria Råstam, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Cynthia M. Bulik, Paul Lichtenstein, Christopher Gillberg, Sebastian Lundström
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines - 2021 -
Autism classified by magnetic resonance imaging: A pilot study of a potential diagnostic
tool
Darko Sarovic, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Justin F. Schneiderman, Sebastian Lundström, Christopher Gillberg
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - 2020 -
Oxytocin reduces the functional connectivity between brain regions involved in eating behavior in men with overweight and
obesity
L. Kerem, Nouchine Hadjikhani, L. Holsen, E. A. Lawson, F. Plessow
International Journal of Obesity - 2020 -
Social scene perception in autism spectrum disorder: An eye-tracking and pupillometric
study
Morgan Frost-Karlsson, Martyna A Galazka, Christopher Gillberg, I Carina Gillberg, Carmela Miniscalco, Eva Billstedt, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Jakob Åsberg Johnels
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology - 2019 -
Visual scanning during emotion recognition in long-term recovered anorexia nervosa: An eye-tracking
study.
Lisa Dinkler, Sandra Rydberg Dobrescu, Maria Råstam, I Carina Gillberg, Christopher Gillberg, Elisabet Wentz, Nouchine Hadjikhani
International Journal of Eating Disorders - 2019 -
Neural gain control measured through cortical gamma oscillations is associated with sensory
sensitivity.
Elena V Orekhova, Tatiana A Stroganova, Justin F. Schneiderman, Sebastian Lundström, Bushra Riaz, Darko Sarovic, Olga V Sysoeva, Georg Brant, Christopher Gillberg, Nouchine Hadjikhani
Human brain mapping - 2019 -
Pupillary Contagion in
Autism.
Martyna A Galazka, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Nicole R Zürcher, Loyse Hippolyte, Eric Lemonnier, Eva Billstedt, Christopher Gillberg, Nouchine Hadjikhani
Psychological science - 2019 -
The Neurobiology of
Autism
Christopher Gillberg, Clare Sarah Allely, Thomas Bourgeron, Mary Coleman, Elisabeth Fernell, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Darko Sarovic
Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, 3rd Ed. Fred R. Volkmar (red.) - 2019 -
Neuroimaging clues of migraine
aura
Nouchine Hadjikhani, M. Vincent
Journal of Headache and Pain - 2019 -
Influence of anxiety and alexithymia on brain activations associated with the perception of others' pain in
autism.
Amandine Lassalle, Nicole R Zürcher, Carlo A Porro, Francesca Benuzzi, Loyse Hippolyte, Eric Lemonnier, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Nouchine Hadjikhani
Social neuroscience - 2019 -
Effect of visual stimuli of pain on empathy brain network in people with and without Autism Spectrum
Disorder
A. Lassalle, N. R. Zurcher, L. Hippolyte, Eva Billstedt, C. A. Porro, F. Benuzzi, P. Solomon, K. M. Prkachin, E. Lemonnier, Christopher Gillberg, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Nouchine Hadjikhani
European Journal of Neuroscience - 2018 -
Quantifying the Effects of 16p11.2 Copy Number Variants on Brain Structure: A Multisite Genetic-First
Study
S. Martin-Brevet, B. Rodriguez-Herreros, J. A. Nielsen, C. Moreau, C. Modenato, A. M. Maillard, A. Pain, S. Richetin, A. E. Jonch, A. Y. Qureshi, N. R. Zurcher, P. Conus, W. K. Chung, E. H. Sherr, J. E. Spiro, F. Kherif, J. S. Beckmann, Nouchine Hadjikhani, A. Reymond, R. L. Buckner, B. Draganski, S. Jacquemont
Biological Psychiatry - 2018 -
Dietary dopamine depletion blunts reward network sensitivity to face
trustworthiness
L. A. Zebrowitz, J. Boshyan, N. Ward, L. Hanlin, J. M. Wolf, Nouchine Hadjikhani
Journal of Psychopharmacology - 2018 -
Older adults' neural activation in the reward circuit is sensitive to face
trustworthiness
L. A. Zebrowitz, N. Ward, J. Boshyan, A. Gutchess, Nouchine Hadjikhani
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience - 2018 -
The Zappel-Philipp a historical example of ADHD
Clinics
M. Bader, R. Tannock, Nouchine Hadjikhani
Adhd-Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - 2018
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