2025
1. Deng L#, Lu MJ#, Yang LT, Zhang Y, Tan HY, Cao M*, Li F*. A New Paradigm for Autism Spectrum Disorder Discrimination in Children Utilizing EEG Data Collected During Cartoon Viewing with a Focus on Atypical Semantic Processing. Autism Res. 2025 Aug 23. doi: 10.1002/aur.70105. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40847596.
2. Geng S, Dai Y, Rolls ET, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Deng L, Chen Z, Feng J, Li F*, Cao M* (2025) Rightward brain structural asymmetry in young children with autism. Molecular Psychiatry, doi: 10.1038/s41380-025-02890-9.
3. Li Q#, Cao M#, Stein DJ, Sahakian BJ, Jia T, Langley C, Gu Z, Hou W, Lu H, Cao L, Lin J, Shi R, Banaschewski T, Bokde ALW, Desrivières S, Flor H, Grigis A, Garavan H, Gowland P, Heinz A, Brühl R, Martinot JL, Artiges E, Nees F, Papadopoulos Orfanos D, Paus T, Poustka L, Hohmann S, Baeuchl C, Smolka MN, Vaidya N, Walter H, Whelan R, Schumann G, Feng J, Luo Q*; IMAGEN Consortium. (2025) Cognitive predictors of mental health trajectories are mediated by inferior frontal and occipital development during adolescence. Molecular Psychiatry, doi: 10.1038/s41380-025-02912-6.
4. Tan H#, Xu M#, Ren T, Deng L#, Zhang L, Wang S, Cao M*, Yuan TF*, Li F*, Evaluating the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of accelerated continuous theta-burst stimulation targeting the left primary motor cortex to improve social communication impairment in autistic children, General Psychiatry, 2025, Accepted
5. Chang X, Jia T, Fu Z, Xiang S, Xia Y, Xie C, Zou J, Cao M, Zhang J, …Feng J, Calhoun V, Schumann G, IMAGEN and environMENTAL Consortia, Neurocognitive characterization of behaviour and mental illness through time-varying brain network analysis. Nature Communications. 2025 Accepted.
6. Wu X, Zhang K, Kuang N, Kong X, Cao M, Lian Z, Liu Y, Fan H, Yu G, Liu Z, Cheng W, Jia T, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW, Feng J, Schumann G, Palaniyappan L, Zhang J. Developing brain asymmetry shapes cognitive and psychiatric outcomes in adolescence. Nature Communications. 2025 May 14;16(1):4480. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-59110-9.
7. Liang X, Sun L, Cao M and He Y, Trajectories of functional connectivity in brain maturation, Functional Connectivity of the Human Brain, 2025, Elsevier, ISBN: 978-0-443-19099-5
2024
8. Liu L, Chen D, Huang F, Jia T, Cheng W, Pan M, Zhao M, Bu X, Liao X, Wang Y, Cao M*, Qian Q*, Feng J* (2024) Interference of default mode on attention networks in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and its association with genetic variants and treatment outcomes, CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 30(8):e14900. doi: 10.1111/cns.14900.
9. Xu Y, Liao X, Lei T, Cao M, Zhao J, Zhang J, Zhao T, Li Q, Jeon T, Ouyang M, Chalak L, Rollins N, Huang H, He Y*(2024) Development of neonatal connectome dynamics and its prediction for cognitive and language outcomes at age 2. Cerebral Cortex. 2;34(5):bhae204. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhae204.
10. Etiology and Translational Research in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Nature, Nurture, and Neurodevelopment, Springer Nature, ISBN:
11. Li F, Xu M, Yu J, Cao M, Autism spectrum disorder, The SAGE Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology, SAGE Publications Ltd, ISBN: 9781529717655
12. 基于机器学习的儿童自闭症辅助筛查装置，曹淼，李斐，冯建峰，鲁梦洁，邓琳，张悦，申请号202411519731.7
2023
13. Geng S, Guo W, Rolls T E, Xu K, Jia T, Zhou W, Blakemore C, Tian LH*, Cao M*, Feng J* (2023) Intersecting distributed networks support convergent linguistic functioning across different languages in bilinguals. Communications Biology. 25;6(1):99.
14. Yu Y*, Akif A, Herman P, Cao M, Rothman L.D, Carson R, Agarwal D, Evans C. A, Hyder F* (2023) A 3D atlas of functional human brain energetic connectome based on neuropil distribution. Cerebral Cortex. 33(7):3996-4012
2022
15. Dai Y, Liu Y, Zhang L, Ren T, Wang H, Liu X, Chen Z, Deng L, Tao M, Tan H, Huang CC, Zhang J, Luo Q, Feng J, Cao M*, Li F* (2022) Shanghai Autism Early Development: A Integrative Chinese ASD Cohort, Neuroscience Bulletin, 38(12):1603-160.
16. Guo W, Geng S, Cao M*, Feng J* (2022) Functional gradient of the fusiform cortex from Chinese character recognition. eNeuro, 9(3):ENEURO.0495-21.2022.
17. Guo W, Geng S, Cao M*, Feng J* (2022) The Brain Connectome for Chinese Reading. Neuroscience Bulletin. 38(9):1097-1113.
18. Du J#, Rolls T. E #, Gong W#, Cao M #
, Vatansever D, Zhang J, Cheng W, Feng J (2022), Association between parental age, brain structure, and behavioral and cognitive problems in children, Molecular Psychiatry, 27(2):967-975
19. Wang L, Chen X, Xu Y, Cao M, Liao X, He Y (2022) Frequency-resolved connectome hubs and test-retest reliability in the resting human brain, Neuroscience Bulletin, 38(5):519-532.
20. Chen D, Jia T, Cheng W, Cao M, Banaschewski T, Gareth J. B, Bokde L.W. A, Bromberg U, Büchel C, Desrivières S, Flor H, Grigis A, Garavan H, Gowland P, Heinz A, Ittermann B, Martinot J, Martinot M, Nees F, Orfanos D, Paus T, Poustka L, Fröhner H. J, Smolka N. M, Walter H, Whelan R, Robbins T, Sahakian B, Schumann G, Feng J, the IMAGEN Consortium (2022) Brain signatures during reward anticipation predict persistent ADHD symptoms, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 61(8):1050-1061
2021
21. Zhou W, Cui X, Shi B, Su M*, Cao M* (2021). The Development of Brain Functional Connectome during Text Reading. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 48:100927.
22. Cao M*, He Y, Connectome and graph analysis of the developing brain, Handbook of Pediatric Brain Imaging, Elsevier, ISBN:978-0-12-816633-8
23. Bu X, Cao M, Huang X, He Y (2021), The structural connectome in ADHD. Psychoradiology, 1(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/psyrad/kkab021
24. Di Chen, Jia T, Zhang Y, Cao M, Loth E, Lo C, Cheng W, Liu Z, Gong W, Sahakian B, Feng J (2021) Neural biomarkers distinguish severe versus mild autism spectrum disorder amongst high-functioning individuals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
2019
25. Xu YH#, Cao M#, Liao XH, Xia MR, Jeon T, Ouyang M, Chalak L, Rollins N, Huang H, He Y* (2019). Development and emergence of individual variability in the functional connectivity architecture of the preterm human brain. Cerebral Cortex. 29(10):4208-4222 (# contributed equally to the work).
2017
26. Cao M, Huang H, He Y* (2017). Developmental Connectomics from Infancy through Early Childhood. Trends in Neuroscience. 40(8):494-506.
27. Cao M, He Y*, Dai ZJ, Liao XH, Jeon T, Ouyang MH, Chalak L, Bi YC, Rollons N, Dong Q, Huang H* (2017). Early development of functional network segregation revealed by connectomic analysis of the preterm human brain
. Cerebral Cortex.27(3):1949-1963. (ESI top 1% 高被引文章)
28. Liao X, Cao M, Xia M, He Y* (2017). Individual differences and time-varying features of modular brain architecture. Neuroimage. 152:94-107.
29. Sha Z, Xia M, Lin Q, Cao M, Tang Y, Xu K, Song H, Wang Z, Wang F, Fox P, Evans A and Yong He Y* (2017). Meta-connectomic analysis reveals commonly disrupted functional architectures in network modules and connectors across brain disorders. Cerebral Cortex DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhx273.
2016
30. Cao M, Huang H, Peng Y, Dong Q, He Y* (2016). T
owards developmental connectomics of the human brain.
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy.
10:25.
2015
31. Cao M#, Wang ZJ#, He Y* (2015). Connectomics in psychiatric research: advances and applications. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 11:2801-2810. (# contributed equally to the work)
32. Zhao T, Cao M, Niu H, Zuo XN, Evans A, He Y, Dong Q and Shu N* (2015). Age-related changes in the topological organization of the white matter structural connectome across the human lifespan. Human Brain Mapping. 36(10):3777-92.
33. Zhao T, Duan F, Liao X, Dai Z, Cao M, He Y and Shu N* (2015). Test-retest reliability of white matter structural brain networks: A multiband diffusion MRI study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9:59.
2014
34. Cao M, Wang JH, Dai ZJ, Cao XY, Jiang LL, Fan FM, Song XW, Xia MR, Shu N, Dong Q, Milham MP, Castellanos FX, Zuo XN, He Y* (2014). Topological organization of the human brain functional connectome across the lifespan. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.7:76-93. (ESI top 1% 高被引文章)
35. Cao M, Shu N, Cao Q, Wang Y, He Y* (2014). Imaging functional and structural brain connectomics in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Molecular Neurobiology.50(3):1111-23 (封面文章)
36. Li X#, Cao M#, Zhang JY, Chen KW, Chen YJ, Ma C, Fleisher A, He Y*, Zhang ZJ*, and for the BABRI study group (2014). Structural and functional brain changes in the default mode network in subtypes of amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry Neurology. 27(3):188-198. (# contributed equally to the work)
37. Eilam-Stock T, Xu P, Cao M, Gu X, Van Dam NT, Anagnostou E, Kolevzon A, Soorya L, Park Y, Siller M, He Y, Hof PR, Fan J* (2014). Abnormal autonomic and associated brain activities during rest in autism spectrum disorder. Brain. 137:153-171.
38. Dai Z, Yan C, Li K, Wang Z, Wang J, Cao M, Lin Q, Shu N, Xia M, Bi Y, He Y* (2014).Identifying and Mapping Connectivity Patterns of Brain Network Hubs in Alzheimer's Disease. Cerebral Cortex. 25(10):3723-42.
