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How immune cells help wire the brain: Implications for autism and psychiatric illness
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
On 2 November 2016, Beth Stevens discussed recent work that implicates brain immune cells, called microglia, in sculpting of synaptic connections during development and their relevance to autism, schizophrenia and other brain disorders.
Tuberous Sclerosis: Shedding light on the neural circuitry of autism
Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
On 5 October 2016, Mustafa Sahin presented an update on translational research in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex.
Sleep in autism spectrum disorders: A window to etiology, diagnosis and treatment
On 7 September 2016, Ruth O'Hara discussed the field’s current understanding of sleep in autism spectrum disorder.
One brain, many genomes: Somatic mutation and genomic variability in human cerebral cortex
Bullard Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
On 27 April 2016, Christopher Walsh reviewed recent work on ‘somatic mutations’ — de novo mutations that are present in some brain cells but not in all cells of the body — in several neurological conditions associated with intellectual disability and seizures.
Development begins before birth: Prenatal research relevant to autism
On 30 March 2016, Catherine Monk described her lab’s fetal origins of adult disease studies that focus on women in the perinatal period and fetal and infant neurobehavioral development, including direct studies of the fetus, newborn brain imaging and placental methylation.
Making up your mind: Interneurons in development and disease
Group Leader, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
On 27 January 2016, Gordon Fishell described his investigations of the developmental and genetic origins of interneuron development.
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