Tag: brain imaging

Coordinating animal- and human-based research on sensory alterations in autism spectrum disorders On September 25, 2018, SFARI convened a workshop with the aims of discussing current research on sensory processing in autism and bringing together investigators that conduct animal- and human-based studies…

Impaired reward circuitry during voice processing predicts social communication abilities in autism Vinod Menon and colleagues report that a difference in the activation of a voice-processing network comprising reward and salience detection systems is a distinguishing feature of autism.

SFARI Winter 2019 Pilot awardees announced SFARI is pleased to announce that it intends to fund 15 grants in response to the Winter 2019 Pilot Award request for applications (RFA).

A Conversation with Paul Wang, Deputy Director of Clinical Research Associates Paul Wang, Deputy Director of Clinical Research Associates, L.L.C. (CRA), discusses the research that CRA supports, including human and animal studies using arbaclofen, a potential drug treatment for autism.

Characterizing focal cortical dysplasias in individuals with autism spectrum disorders Using new magnetic resonance imaging techniques and analysis approaches to identify focal cortical dysplasias (FCDs), Ruth Carper aims to determine whether FCDs occur more frequently in individuals with ASDs than…

Conserved neural mechanisms for social motivation in mice and humans Rebecca Saxe will test whether midbrain dopaminergic signals of social cravings, previously observed in mice, are similarly observed in humans. As impairments in social motivation have been postulated to be…