Autism and other related neurodevelopment disorders are heterogeneous at every scale, from genome to phenome. However, the diagnostic label does not reflect this heterogeneity. We seek to better understand how and why heterogeneity manifests in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism. Our study of heterogeneity in autism cuts across scales, including genomics, neuroscience, cognition, and behavior. Our goal is to identify ways to better explain differential biology, outcomes, and responses to treatment in individuals with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Michael Vincent Lombardo
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Research center
CNCS@UniTn
Interests
autism
neurodevelopmental disorders
heterogeneity
data science
About
Top Publications
2026
Pagani M., Zerbi V., Gini S., Alvino F.G., Banerjee A., Barberis A., Basson M.A., Bozzi Y., Galbusera A., Ellegood J., Fagiolini M., Lerch J.P., Matteoli M., Montani C., Pozzi D., Provenzano G., Scattoni M.L., Wenderoth N., Xu T., Lombardo M.V., Milham M.P., Di Martino A., Gozzi A.
Autism subtypes identified using cross-species functional connectivity analyses
Nature Neuroscience
Article
Journal
2026
Crockford S.K., Satta E., Severino I., Fiacchino D., Vitale A., Bertelsen N., Busuoli E.M., Mandelli V., Lombardo M.V.
Detection of Idiosyncratic Gaze-Fingerprint Signatures in Humans
Psychological Science, vol. 37, (no. 2), pp. 83-105
Article
Journal
2026
Lombardo M.V., Severino I., Mandelli V.
Stratifying the autisms by a type I versus type II distinction in early development
Nature Mental Health, vol. 4, (no. 3), pp. 321-335
2026
Baron-Cohen S., Tsompanidis A., Srivastava D.P., Mill J., Lancaster M.A., Adhya D., Zhang X., Weir E., Uzefovsky F., Tsompanidis A., Sichlinger L., Rowitch D.H., Radecki M.A., Pavlinek A., Okewole N., Niakan K.K., Nagy R., Mousa M., Mill J., Martin H.C., Lombardo M.V., Lancaster M.A., Lai M.-C., Kosidou K., Khan Y.T., Hurles M.E., Holt R., Heazell A.E.P., Gu Y., Greenberg D.M., Gonzalez-Martinez J., Ali Marandi Ghoddousi R., Geschwind D.H., Gabis L.V., Franklin A., Floris D., Dutan-Polit L., Del Rio J.P., Davis J., Cindrova-Davies T., Burton G.J., Biron-Shental T., Bethlehem R., Baron-Cohen S., Bamford R., Auyeung B., Allison C., Al-Rubaie O., Warrier V.
The prenatal sex steroid theory of autism after 25 years
Nature Human Behaviour
Review
Journal
2025
Zhang X., Grove J., Gu Y., Buus C. K., Nielsen L. K., Neufeld S. A. S., Koko M., Malawsky D. S., Wade E., Verhoef E., Gui A., Hegemann L., Apex C., iPsych C., Pgc-Ptsd C., Geschwind D. H., Wray N. R., Havdahl A., Ronald A., St Pourcain B., Robinson E. B., Bourgeron T., Baron-Cohen S., Børglund A. D., Martin H. C., Warrier V.
Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis
Nature, vol. 646, pp. 1146-1155
All Publications
2026
Severino I., Mandelli V., Bertelsen N., Lombardo M.V.
Altered Sensorimotor-Association Axis Patterning of Global Functional Connectivity in an Autism Subtype With Low Levels of Language, Intellectual, and Adaptive Functioning
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
2026
Pagani M., Zerbi V., Gini S., Alvino F.G., Banerjee A., Barberis A., Basson M.A., Bozzi Y., Galbusera A., Ellegood J., Fagiolini M., Lerch J.P., Matteoli M., Montani C., Pozzi D., Provenzano G., Scattoni M.L., Wenderoth N., Xu T., Lombardo M.V., Milham M.P., Di Martino A., Gozzi A.
Autism subtypes identified using cross-species functional connectivity analyses
Nature Neuroscience
Article
Journal
2026
Hardie I., Marryat L., Murray A., King J., Okelo K., Fenton L., Stevely A., Boardman J., Lombardo M., Stock S.
COVID-19 Public Health and Social Measures (PHSM) and early childhood developmental concerns in Scotland: an interrupted time series analysis
International journal of population data science, vol. 11, (no. 5)
Article
Journal
2026
Crockford S.K., Satta E., Severino I., Fiacchino D., Vitale A., Bertelsen N., Busuoli E.M., Mandelli V., Lombardo M.V.
Detection of Idiosyncratic Gaze-Fingerprint Signatures in Humans
Psychological Science, vol. 37, (no. 2), pp. 83-105
Article
Journal
2026
Hu F., Tong J., Gardner M., Adamson C., Adler S., Alexander-Bloch A.F., Anagnostou E., Anderson K.M., Areces-Gonzalez A., Astle D.E., Auyeung B., Ayub M., Bae J.B., Ball G., Baron-Cohen S., Beare R., Bedford S.A., Benegal V., Beyer F., Blangero J., Cabez M.B., Boardman J.P., Borzage M., Bosch-Bayard J.F., Bourke N., Bullmore E.T., Calhoun V.D., Chakravarty M.M., Chen C., Chertavian C., Chetelat G., Chong Y.S., Corvin A., Costantino M., Courchesne E., Crivello F., Cropley V.L., Crosbie J., Crossley N., Delarue M., Delorme R., Desrivieres S., Devenyi G.A., Biase M.A.D., Dolan R., Donald K.A., Donohoe G., Dorfschmidt L., Dunlop K., Edwards A.D., Elison J.T., Ellis C.T., Elman J.A., Eyler L., Fair D.A., Fletcher P.C., Fonagy P., Franz C.E., Galan-Garcia L., Gholipour A., Giedd J., Gilmore J.H., Glahn D.C., Goodyer I.M., Grant P.E., Groenewold N.A., Gunning F.M., Gur R.E., Gur R.C., Hammill C.F., Hansson O., Hedden T., Heinz A., Henson R.N., Heuer K., Hoare J., Holla B., Holmes A.J., Huang H., Ipser J., Jack C.R., Jackowski A.P., Jia T., Jones D.T., Jones P.B., Kahn R.S., Karlsson H., Karlsson L., Kawashima R., Kelley E.A., Kern S., Kim K.-W., Kitzbichler M.G., Kremen W.S., Lalonde F., Landeau B., Lerch J., Lewis J.D., Li J., Liao W., Liston C., Lombardo M.V., Lv J., Mallard T.T., Marcelis M., Mathias S.R., Mazoyer B., McGuire P., Meaney M.J., Mechelli A., Misic B., Morgan S.E., Mothersill D., Ortinau C., Ossenkoppele R., Ouyang M., Palaniyappan L., Paly L., Pan P.M., Pantelis C., Park M.T.M., Paus T., Pausova Z., Paz-Linares D., Binette A.P., Pierce K., Qian X., Qiu A., Raznahan A., Rittman T., Rodrigue A., Rollins C.K., Romero-Garcia R., Ronan L., Rosenberg M.D., Rowitch D.H., Salum G.A., Satterthwaite T.D., Schaare H.L., Schachar R.J., Scholl M., Schultz A.P., Sharp D., Skoog I., Smyser C.D., Sperling R.A., Stein D.J., Stolicyn A., Suckling J., Sullivan G., Sun K., Thyreau B., Toro R., Traut N., Tsvetanov K.A., Turk-Browne N.B., Tuulari J.J., Tzourio C., Vachon-Presseau E., Valdes-Sosa M.J., Valdes-Sosa P.A., Valk S.L., Van Amelsvoort T., Vandekar S.N., Vasung L., Vertes P.E., Victoria L.W., Villeneuve S., Villringer A., Vogel J.W., Wagstyl K., Wang Y.-S.S., Warfield S.K., Warrier V., Westman E., Westwater M.L., Whalley H.C., White S.R., Witte A.V., Yang N., Yeo B.T.T., Yun H.J., Zalesky A., Zar H.J., Zettergren A., Zhou J.H., Ziauddeen H., Zimmerman D., Zugman A., Zuo X.-N.N., Chen A.A., Bethlehem R.A.I., Seidlitz J., Li H., Alexander-Bloch A., Chen Y., Shinohara R.T.
DGAMLSS: An exact, distributed algorithm to fit Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale, and Shape for privacy-preserving population reference charts
Bioinformatics, vol. 42, (no. 1)
Awards and Achievements
2025
Lombardo M. V.
International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Keynote Address
2022
Lombardo M. V.
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher Award
2021
Lombardo M. V.
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher Award