Zhiqiang Sha (@zhiqiangsha.bsky.social)
@sha_zhiqiang
Assistant Professor @UofSC; Scientist at CHOP/Penn; Imaging Genomics Transcriptomics; Neurodevelopmental disorders; https://shazhiqiang.wixsite.com/sha-lab
🔔🔔My new lab is hiring an imaging-genetics Postdoc, exploring how genetic factors (e.g., genomics, transcriptomics) and environmental factors (e.g., early life stress) influence brain development, psychopathology, and neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., autism). Welcome!

Mapping human thalamocortical connectivity with electrical stimulation and recording | Nature Neuroscience nature.com/articles/s4159…
Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain | Nature Methods. @misicbata Congratulations, what an amazing work! nature.com/articles/s4159…
Framework for Brain-Derived Dimensions of Psychopathology | JAMA Psychiatry jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…
A pattern-learning algorithm associates copy number variations with brain structure and behavioural variables in an adolescent population cohort | Nature Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations, @KopalJakub !! nature.com/articles/s4155…
Decomposition of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism reveals underlying genetic programs | Nature Genetics nature.com/articles/s4158…
Glymphatic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease: A critical appraisal | Science science.org/doi/full/10.11…
DunedinPACNI estimates the longitudinal Pace of Aging from a single brain image to track health and disease | Nature Aging nature.com/articles/s4358…
Human thalamocortical structural connectivity develops in line with a hierarchical axis of cortical plasticity | Nature Neuroscience. Congratulations @sattertt!!👏 nature.com/articles/s4159…
👏✌️Our new paper is featured on the cover of the American Journal of Psychiatry in August! In this study, we explored the contribution of copy number variants to child psychopathology and cognitive development. Thanks to all co-authors!! psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.11…

Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development | Nature Neuroscience nature.com/articles/s4159…
Ultrafast J-resolved magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging for high-resolution metabolic brain imaging | Nature Biomedical Engineering nature.com/articles/s4155…
GW: ultra-fast chromosome-scale visualization of genomics data | Nature Methods nature.com/articles/s4159…
We called deletions and duplications across 11,088 adolescents from the ABCD study.
👏🙌Finally out!!! Our new study described the CNV landscape of the ABCD study, published in American Journal of Psychiatry. We identified CNV associations with chid psychopathology and cognitive development. Thanks @Aaron_A_B, Joe and all co-authors!!! psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…
🔔🔔My new lab is hiring a full-time Research Assistant, exploring how genetic factors and environmental factors (e.g., early life stress) influence brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., autism). Welcome! Pls RT and DM me if you are interested. Thanks.

Beyond volume: Unraveling the genetics of human brain geometry | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Noninvasive reduction of neural rigidity alters autistic behaviors in humans | Nature Neuroscience nature.com/articles/s4159…