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SUMMARY:Evolving perspectives on autism
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nOn 26 September 2013\, Catherine Lord and Steven Hyman presented conceptual frameworks for autism diagnosis and research\, ranging from genetics to symptomatology\, as part of SFARI’s Autism: Emerging Concepts lecture series. \nEric London provided post-lecture commentary\, placing the discussion in a clinical context and providing a physician’s perspective. \nYou can watch a complete video recording of the event above. Use the comments section below to discuss the lecture and pose follow-up questions. \nAbout the lecture:\nTremendous progress has been made in our understanding of autism\, with major contributions coming from a variety of research fields\, including genetics\, neuroscience and psychology. The clinical definition of autism has been revamped with the publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Accordingly\, our concept of autism is evolving\, which in turn affects the future of autism research and the development of interventions. \nAbout the speakers:\nCatherine Lord is director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain\, a joint project of New York-Presbyterian Hospital\, Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in partnership with New York Collaborates for Autism. \nLord is a licensed clinical psychologist with specialties in diagnosis\, social and communication development\, and intervention in autism. Renowned for her work in longitudinal studies of social and communicative development in autism\, Lord has also contributed to the development of diagnostic instruments for autism that are now used as global research standards. \nSteven Hyman is director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University\, and is Distinguished Service Professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard. \nFrom 1996 to 2001\, Hyman served as director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health\, where he emphasized investment in neuroscience and emerging genetic technologies and initiated a series of large practical clinical trials to inform practice. He is editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience\, president-elect of the Society for Neuroscience\, founding president of the International Neuroethics Society and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies. \nAbout the commentators:\nGerald D. Fischbach is chief scientist and fellow of the Simons Foundation. \nEric London is director of the Autism Treatment Laboratory at the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.sfari.org/event/evolving-perspectives-on-autism/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
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