Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium at the Simons Foundation headquarters
160 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
In this lecture, David G. Amaral will present neuroimaging data acquired through the University of California, Davis MIND Institute’s Autism Phenome Project. Young children (aged 2 to 3 and a half years old) are recruited into this longitudinal project and MRI scans are acquired annually. Results will be presented supporting the concept that there are different types of altered brain development in different children with autism. Amaral will also discuss neuroimaging studies of infant siblings of children with autism that provide evidence for abnormal brain growth that may contribute to early biomarkers of autism.
David G. Amaral joined the University of California,
Davis in 1995 as a professor in the department of psychiatry and
behavioral sciences and the Center for Neuroscience. He is a staff
scientist in the Brain, Mind and Behavior Unit at the California
National Primate Research Center. Amaral was named the Beneto Foundation
Chair and research director of the MIND Institute in 1998. He received a
joint Ph.D. in psychology and neurobiology from the University of
Rochester.
Amaral’s research focuses on the neurobiology of social
behavior and the development and neuroanatomical organization and
plasticity of the primate and human amygdala and hippocampal formation.
Increasingly, his research has been dedicated to understanding the
biological basis of autism. As research director of the MIND Institute,
Amaral coordinates a comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of
children with autism, called the Autism Phenome Project, to define
biomedical characteristics of different types of autism.
Most recently, Amaral became director of Autism
BrainNet, a collaborative effort sponsored by the Simons Foundation and
Autism Speaks, to solicit postmortem brain tissue to facilitate autism
research.
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Ancient Tao already taught much about THE BRAIN and here we are approximately 45,000 years later or thereabouts and as the Taoists said, science catches up eventually with the great genius of the 'mind' WHOLE, that is - 'brain' computer that can't be reproduced not ever and in every cell of the body is the 'mind'!
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