College of Medicine
Zielinski Lab
Led by Brandon Zielinski · Pediatrics
What we study
The Zielinski Lab studies how brain networks develop in children, focusing on autism and other neurological disorders. They use clinical and imaging studies to understand structure-function relationships in the brain.
What working here is like
- Clinical
- Computational
- Human participants
- Coding required
- Projects
- 5
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Toward Healthy Aging in Adults with Autism
A longitudinal study using clinical and brain imaging to track brain development in adults with autism.
Diabetes Brain and Cognitive Development – Type 1
Research on how diabetes affects brain and cognitive development in children.
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Personalized Profiles of Pathology in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
Investigating brain injury patterns in children with traumatic brain injuries.
Brain and Behavioral Development in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Studying brain structure and behavior in children with autism.
Project Streamlining Autism Diagnostics: A Machine Learning Approach to Simplifying the ADOS-2 for Accessible ASD Assessment
The lab studies how to make the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule‑2 (ADOS‑2) easier to use by finding the fewest questions that still give accurate results. Using data from 108 children, the study shows six items—echolalia, quality response, stereotyped words, conversation, eye contact, and quality of rapport—can predict scores well. Future work will test this simplified test in larger groups
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 563
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Recent papers, explained
- Flexible nonlinear modeling reveals age-related differences in resting-state functional brain connectivity in autistic males from childhood to mid-adulthood
2025 · Molecular Autism
Uses flexible models to track brain connections in autistic males from childhood to mid-adulthood.
- Linking Symptom Inventories Using Semantic Textual Similarity
2025 · Journal of Neurotrauma
Links different brain injury symptom tests using text similarity to make results comparable.
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- Atypical Postural Control Variability and Coordination Persist Into Middle and Older Adulthood in Autism Spectrum Disorder
2025 · Autism Research
Measures balance and movement in autistic adults to see how postural control changes with age.
- The insidious degeneration of white matter and cognitive decline in Fabry disease
2025 · PLoS ONE
Compares brain scans and cognitive tests of Fabry patients to typical aging to find unique brain changes.
- Dr. Temple Grandin: Neuropsychological assessment and a multimodal neuroimaging case study of a distinguished scientist, educator, and person with autism.
2025 · Journal of Pediatric Neuropsychology
Tests Temple Grandin's brain with scans and cognitive tests to study autism.
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How to reach out
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