Xiaoqian Chai, McGill University

Research

Autism Brain Networks Episodic Memory Social Cognition Crc 7t Mri Brain Development Default Network

Latest papers

Morphometric dissimilarity in association cortices linked to autism subtype with more severe symptoms.
NeuroImage · 2026 · senior author
Characterising the association between posterior parietal metabolite levels and cortical macrostructure in a cohort spanning childhood to adulthood.
Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025
Characterising the association between posterior parietal metabolite levels and cortical macrostructure in a cohort spanning childhood to adulthood.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025

All 15 publications

Latest funding

Precision multi-modal brain imaging of high-level cognitive functional network development in autism via ultra-high field MRI
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$703,800
Canada Research Chair - Tier 2
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$500,000
The development of memory and mentalizing networks in autism
CIHR · 2022 · Nominated PI
$100,000

All 6 grants and awards

15 publications.

01

Morphometric dissimilarity in association cortices linked to autism subtype with more severe symptoms.

Jiang H, Rodriguez-Cruces R, Xie K, Kebets V, Wang Y, Weber CF, He Y, Kember J, Sweatman H, Tabuenca ZG, Poline JB, Bzdok D, Hong SJ, Bernhardt B, Chai X

NeuroImage2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121775 PMID: 41651092

02

Characterising the association between posterior parietal metabolite levels and cortical macrostructure in a cohort spanning childhood to adulthood.

Thomson AR, Pasanta D, Edden RAE, Arichi T, Chai X, Puts NA

Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2025

DOI: 10.1162/imag.a.1041 PMID: 42327889

03

Characterising the association between posterior parietal metabolite levels and cortical macrostructure in a cohort spanning childhood to adulthood.

Thomson AR, Pasanta D, Edden RAE, Arichi T, Chai X, Puts NA

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.20.655054 PMID: 40661552

04

Distinctive Neural Substrates of low and high Risky Decision Making: Evidence from the Balloon Analog Risk Task.

Jin Z, Li S, Wang C, Chai X, Zhang J, Li L

Brain topography2024

DOI: 10.1007/s10548-024-01094-8 PMID: 39625684

05

Enhanced efficiency in the bilingual brain through the inter-hemispheric cortico-cerebellar pathway in early second language acquisition.

Gracia-Tabuenca Z, Barbeau EB, Kousaie S, Chen JK, Chai X, Klein D

Communications biology2024

DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06965-1 PMID: 39390147

06

Contracted functional connectivity profiles in autism.

Weber CF, Kebets V, Benkarim O, Lariviere S, Wang Y, Ngo A, Jiang H, Chai X, Park BY, Milham MP, Di Martino A, Valk S, Hong SJ, Bernhardt BC

Molecular autism2024

DOI: 10.1186/s13229-024-00616-2 PMID: 39261969

07

Family Environment Modulates Linkage of Transdiagnostic Psychiatric Phenotypes and Dissociable Brain Features in the Developing Brain.

Huang X, Gao L, Xiao J, Li L, Shan X, Chen H, Chai X, Duan X

Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.03.003 PMID: 38537777

08

In-vivo neuronal dysfunction by Aβ and tau overlaps with brain-wide inflammatory mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease.

Sanchez-Rodriguez LM, Khan AF, Adewale Q, Bezgin G, Therriault J, Fernandez-Arias J, Servaes S, Rahmouni N, Tissot C, Stevenson J, Jiang H, Chai X, Carbonell F, Rosa-Neto P, Iturria-Medina Y

Frontiers in aging neuroscience2024

DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2024.1383163 PMID: 38966801

09

The developmental trajectory of 1H-MRS brain metabolites from childhood to adulthood.

Thomson AR, Hwa H, Pasanta D, Hopwood B, Powell HJ, Lawrence R, Tabuenca ZG, Arichi T, Edden RAE, Chai X, Puts NA

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2024

DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae046 PMID: 38430105

10

Predicting depression risk in early adolescence via multimodal brain imaging.

Gracia-Tabuenca Z, Barbeau EB, Xia Y, Chai X

NeuroImage. Clinical2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103604 PMID: 38603863