Publications
Fakhar, Kayson, and Duncan E. Astle. ‘Embracing the Suboptimal Organization of the Human Brain’. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, May 2026, S1364661326000926.
Hadaeghi, Fatemeh, Kayson Fakhar, and Claus C. Hilgetag. ‘Controlling Reciprocity in Binary and Weighted Networks: A Novel Density-Conserving Approach’. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 36, no. 2 (2026)
Mousley, Alexa, Richard A. I. Bethlehem, Fang-Cheng Yeh, and Duncan E. Astle. ‘Topological Turning Points across the Human Lifespan’. Nature Communications 16, no. 1 (2025): 10055.
Commentary:
Astle, D. E., Johnson, M. H., & Akarca, D. (2025). 'Fix' the Child or Change the Learning Environment?. Developmental science, 28(1), e13567.
Carozza, S., Kletenik, I., Astle, D., Schwamm, L., & Dhand, A. (2025). Whole-brain white matter variation across childhood environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(15), e2409985122.
Monaghan, A., Bethlehem, R. A., Akarca, D., Margulies, D., & Astle, D. E. (2025). Canonical neurodevelopmental trajectories of structural and functional manifolds. eLife, 14. RP103097.
Poli, F., Meyer, M., Mars, R. B., & Hunnius, S. (2025). Exploration in 4‐year‐old children is guided by learning progress and novelty. Child Development, 96(1), 192-202.
Monaghan, A., Akarca, D., & Astle, D. E. (2025). Brain wiring economics, network organisation and population-level genomics. Imaging Neuroscience.
Mousley, A., Akarca, D., & Astle, D. E. (2025). Premature birth changes wiring constraints in neonatal structural brain networks. Nature Communications, 16(1), 490.
Li, Y. L., Poli, F., & Ruggeri, A. (2025). Active control over exploration improves memory in toddlers. Proceedings B, 292(2039), 20242555.
Toffoli, L., Zdorovtsova, N., Epihova, G., Duma, G. M., Del Popolo Cristaldi, F., Pastore, M., ... & Mento, G. Dynamic transient brain states in preschoolers mirror parental report of behavior and emotion regulation
Human Brain Mapping, 45(14), e70011. (2024)
Achterberg, J.*, Akarca, D*., Strouse, D.J., Duncan, J., Astle, D.E. Spatially embedded recurrent neural networks reveal widespread links between structural and functional neuroscience findings.
Nat Mach Intell 5, 1369–1381 (2023).
Carozza S*, Akarca D*, Astle D. E. The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis: modeling equifinality, multifinality, and adaptation to adversity.
Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA120. 2023