Mr Michael Lombardo

Michael Lombardo

University position

PhD student
Supervised by Simon Baron-Cohen

Departments

Department of Psychiatry

Institutes

Autism Research Centre

Email

ml437@cam.ac.uk

Home page

http://sites.google.com/site/mv... (personal home page)

Research Themes

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

Clinical and Veterinary Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

My research deals with the neural systems of social cognition/behavior and autism spectrum conditions.

Shared neural circuits for mentalizing about the self and other. a) Activation for mentalizing about self (red voxels) or other (blue voxels). White voxels denote overlap for self- and other-mentalizing. b) Common functional connectivity from shared vMPFC, PCC, and RTPJ seed regions. Red voxels show connectivity for self-mentalizing and blue voxels are for other-mentalizing. White voxels denote the overlap in connectivity for self- and other-mentalizing
Shared neural circuits for mentalizing about the self and other. a) Activation for mentalizing about self (red voxels) or other (blue voxels). White voxels denote overlap for self- and other-mentalizing. b) Common functional connectivity from shared vMPFC, PCC, and RTPJ seed regions. Red voxels show connectivity for self-mentalizing and blue voxels are for other-mentalizing. White voxels denote the overlap in connectivity for self- and other-mentalizing
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Research Focus

Keywords

autism

empathy

testosterone

self

social neuroscience

Clinical conditions

Autism

Equipment

Behavioural analysis

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Neuropsychological testing

Collaborators

Cambridge

Simon Baron-Cohen

Ed Bullmore

Bhismadev Chakrabarti

Key publications

Lombardo MV, Baron-Cohen S (in press), “Unraveling the paradox of the autistic self” WIREs Cogn Sci

Lombardo MV, Baron-Cohen S, Belmonte MK, Chakrabarti B (in press), “Neural endophenotypes of social behaviour in autism spectrum conditions” Handbook of Social Neuroscience

Lombardo MV, Chakrabarti B, Bullmore E, Sadek SA, Pasco G, Wheelwright SJ, Suckling J, MRC AIMS Consortium, Baron-Cohen S (in press), “Atypical neural self-representation in autism” Brain

Lombardo MV, Chakrabarti B, Bullmore ET, Wheelwright SJ, Sadek SA, Suckling J, Baron-Cohen S, MRC AIMS Consortium (2009), “Shared Neural Circuits for Mentalizing about the Self and Others.” J Cogn Neurosci Details

Lombardo MV, Barnes JL, Wheelwright SJ, & Baron-Cohen S (2007), “Self-referential cognition and empathy in autism” PLoS One 2:e883 PDF Details

Publications

2009

Barnes JL, Lombardo MV, Wheelwright S, Baron-Cohen S (2009), “Moral Dilemmas Film Task: a study of spontaneous narratives by individuals with autism spectrum conditions.” Autism Res Details

Beer JS, Lombardo MV, Bhanji JP (2009), “Roles of medial prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex in self-evaluation.” J Cogn Neurosci

Chura LR, Lombardo MV, Ashwin E, Auyeung B, Chakrabarti B, Bullmore ET, Baron-Cohen S. (2009), “Organizational effects of fetal testosterone on human corpus callosum size and asymmetry” Psychoneuroendocrinology

Lombardo MV, Chakrabarti B, Baron-Cohen S (2009), “The amygdala in autism: not adapting to faces?” Am J Psychiatry 166(4):395-7 Details

Lombardo MV, Chakrabarti B, Baron-Cohen S (2009), “What neuroimaging and perceptions of self-other similarity can tell us about the mechanism underlying mentalizing.” Behav Brain Sci 32(2):152-153

Minio-Paluello I, Lombardo MV, Chakrabarti B, Wheelwright S, Baron-Cohen S (2009), “Response to Smith's Letter to the Editor 'Emotional Empathy in Autism Spectrum Conditions: Weak, Intact, or Heightened?'” J Autism Dev Disord Details

2008

Beer JS, Stallen M, Lombardo MV, Gonsalkorale K, Cunningham WA, Sherman JW (2008), “The Quadruple Process model approach to examining the neural underpinnings of prejudice.” Neuroimage 43(4):775-83 Details

Cohen MX, Lombardo MV, Blumenfeld RS (2008), “Covariance-based subdivision of the human striatum using T1-weighted MRI.” Eur J Neurosci 27(6):1534-46 Details