Media Coverage & Press
2025
The San Diego Union-Tribune: “Opinion: Vaccines don’t cause autism. The CDC should say so.“
2023
SDSU Psychology News: “Master’s student Judy Mahmalji awarded at S3“
SDSU Psychology News: “Judy Mahmalji, CSU Grad Slam research competition winner“
The Transmitter Spectrum Perspectives: “Ruth Carper: Imaging the aging brain in autistic adults“
2022
SDSU Psychology News: “A link between sleep and autism?“
The Transmitter Spectrum News: “Reactions from Neuroscience 2022“
2021
The Transmitter Spectrum News: “Brain’s sensory switchboard has complex connections to autism“
2020
Spectrum News: “Sensory networks overconnected early in autism”
Spectrum News: “Visual, sensory brain regions in autistic children may have weak links“
2019
Spectrum News: “Can we ‘see’ autism in the brain?”
2018
SDSU News Center: “Autism Center Answers Growing Need for Community Services“
Spectrum News: “Language differences underlie distinct subgroups in autism“
KPBS Radio: “What Learning Looks Like: Decoding Social Cues On The Autism Spectrum“
2017
SDSU News Center: “Perspectives on Autism“
Spectrum News: “Autism drugs may alter brain connectivity.”
Spectrum Viewpoint: “Choice of method may influence brain imaging results in autism.”
2016
Neuroscience News: “Brain Connections Show More Symmetry Between Hemispheres in People With Autism.“
Huffington Post: “The Brain Difference That Allows People With Autism To Pick Up Tiny Details.”
Big Think: “The Surprising Symmetry of Brains on the Autism Spectrum.”
Spectrum News: “Brain connectivity fluctuates over time in autism.”
Spectrum News: “Sight may mix with sound in autism brains.”
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): “Less division of labor in the brains of people with autism.“
2015
Fine Magazine: “What Causes Autism: SDSU Professor Hopes to Find a Cure.”
KPBS: “SDSU Study Aims to Shed Light on Adults with Autism.”
San Diego 6CW TV Live Interview: “Brain Connections And Autism: New Discoveries by SDSU Researchers”
2014
Neuroscientist News: “Autism’s early neuronal ‘neighborhood.”
2013
SFARI: “Autism Brains Marked by Weak Local Connections, Study Says.”
Autism Speaks: “Study Links Autism to Impaired Brain Relay Station.”
KPBS: “Abnormal Brain Connections Found in Children with Autism.”
Discover: “Brains of Autistic Children Are Surprisingly Hyper-Connected.”
SFARI: “Autism Brains Are Overly Connected, Studies Find.”
Invited Presentations
September 2016, Invited Talk, Ralph-Axel Müller: “Disconnections in autism: Imaging, individuals & interventions”. John D. Wiley Seminar Series, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
April 2016, Invited Talk, Ralph-Axel Müller: “Neuroimaging in autism: From Biomarkers to Treatment”. New York University Langone Medical Center.
November 2015, Invited Talk, Ralph-Axel Müller: “Brain network connectivity in autism”. Autism Tree Project Foundation Inaugural Neuroscience Conference. Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, La Jolla CA.
May 2015, Invited Talk, Ralph-Axel Müller, “Brain connectivity in autism: The search for biomarkers and subtypes.” Grand Rounds, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit.
May 2015, Invited Talk, Ralph-Axel Müller: “Brain network organization in autism spectrum disorders”. 38th Annual Meadow Brook Lecture in Medicine and Surgery (Rochester, MI). Wayne State University, Oakland University, Southeast Michigan Center for Medical Education.
November 2014, Invited Talk, Ralph-Axel Müller: “Network imaging, biomarkers, genes, interventions: Laundry list or action plan?” Autism Affinity Lecture Series, Center for Autism Research and Treatment, University of California, Los Angeles.
May, 2014, Platform Presentation, Ralph-Axel Müller: “Disrupted emergence of networks in ASD: Evidence from fcMRI and DTI”. International Meeting for Autism Research, Atlanta, GA.
April, 2014, Invited Talk, Ralph-Axel Müller: “More or less atypical – Brain network connectivity in autism.” MIND Institute, UC Davis
March, 2014, Invited Talk, Ralph-Axel Müller: “Impairments of brain network connectivity in autism.” Bioconference Live – Neuroscience
April, 2013. Ralph-Axel Müller: “Hypo or hyper? The hype and promise of connectivity research in ASD.” Rose F. Kennedy Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC). Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.
October 2012. Ralph-Axel Müller: “fMRI approaches to network connectivity in autism spectrum disorders.” Clinical and Translational Research Institute and Center for Functional MRI Symposium, UCSD.