On 11 November 2015, David S. Mandell talked about why autism interventions rarely are implemented in community practice and why they fail to achieve the same outcomes as those observed in clinical trials. His talk was part of the Simons Foundation Autism Research lecture series. About the Lecture A growing body of research shows...
On 27 January 2016, Gordon Fishell described his investigations of the developmental and genetic origins of interneuron development. His talk was part of the Simons Foundation Autism Research lecture series. About the Lecture Interneurons within the brain, in the cortex and hippocampus in particular, are central for normal brain function, and conversely, dysfunction of...
On 30 March 2016, Catherine Monk described her lab’s fetal origins of adult disease (FOAD) 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. Her talk was part of the Simons Foundation Autism Research lecture series....
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. His talk was part of the Simons Foundation Autism Research lecture series....
On 7 September 2016, Ruth O'Hara discussed the field’s current understanding of sleep in autism spectrum disorder. Her talk was part of the Simons Foundation Autism: Emerging Concepts lecture series. About the Lecture Understanding sleep physiology in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) not only provides a window to the underlying etiology, it can also help...
On 5 October 2016, Mustafa Sahin presented an update on translational research in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. His talk was part of the Simons Foundation Autism Research lecture series. About the Lecture In this lecture, Mustafa Sahin presented the rationale for investigating Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) as a way to understand the cellular and circuitry...
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. Her talk was part of the Simons Foundation Autism Research lecture series. About the Lecture Recent research has revealed a key...
All Society for Neuroscience (SfN) attendees are welcome to join SFARI Investigators and scientific staff for an evening of socializing and networking, including a brief information session on SFARI funding opportunities and scientific resources for the autism research community. We welcome newcomers to autism research as well as those already working to uncover the...
On 25 January 2017, Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele outlined critical challenges to translating genomic, cellular, and animal model research into new treatments for autism spectrum disorder. His talk was part of the Simons Foundation Autism Research lecture series. About the Lecture Emerging genomic and neuroscience findings have delivered hypotheses that are now being tested in autism...
