SFARI

On 26 March 2014, Ami Klin presented two new infant and toddler behavioral measures of social behaviors.

On 23 September 2014, Nancy Kanwisher discussed the functional architecture of the social brain as an avenue for considering which functions are affected and which are preserved in autism.

On 29 October 2014, Dan Littman described how intestinal bacteria affect immune system cell functioning, potentially contributing to systemic inflammation and autism.

On September 23, 2022, SFARI will co-host a virtual workshop about the causal mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric conditions, from genes to cells to circuits to behavior. The event is organized in conjunction with the New York Genome Center, Columbia University, the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Oxford, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Join the SFARI science team and leaders in the autism research community for an informal evening of food, drink, conversation and mingling on October 21, 2019, in Chicago.

Join the science team and staff from SFARI and the neuroscience collaborations on the Global Brain and Plasticity and Aging Brain for an evening of socializing and updates. Spectrum, our editorially independent news site for autism research, will announce the launch of an exciting new publication for neuroscientists.

Emmanuel Mignot discussed sleep biology as well as sleep disorders and their impact. He presented a link to what is known on the genetics of sleep and sleep disorders. He emphasized the need for large scale objective sleep recording studies with genomic and proteomic analysis to better understand the molecular pathways regulating sleep and circadian biology.