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Social dysfunction is a universal feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that emerges early in childhood. Research in the McPartland Lab explores the developmental interaction between early-occurring vulnerabilities in social behavior and subsequent experience in children with ASD. Dr. McPartland will describe an approach using clinical insights to guide neuroscientific study towards the
development of translational applications. The lecture will review a series of studies to test and expand upon the predictions of the social motivation hypothesis of ASD. This developmental model offers direct implications for meaningfully characterizing subgroups of individuals with autism, designing targeted treatments, and elucidating the neural underpinnings of effective intervention. Series: "MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [Show ID: 27769] -
The defining characteristics of autism have changed and expanded over the past two decades in large part due to substantial research progress and expanded clinical and
educational resources. Natacha Akshoomoff, UC San Diego, looks at autism from a variety of perspectives, including genetics, brain structure and function, early behavioral features, outcome predictors, and community diagnostic practices. In this presentation, she describes results from recent genetics studies that influence our understanding of autism and developmental disorders. She also describes the continuing challenges of diagnostic identification in community settings. Series: "MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 29511] -
Child Psychiatrist Dr. Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele explores the two main approaches for developing autism medicines. The first and most common approach is to evaluate a treatment in the total group of people affected by ASD, usually with a small number excluded due to the presence of a known genetic syndrome. he second approach is almost the exact opposite, to study a medication for ASD-related symptoms in a defined genetic syndrome that confers substantial risk of ASD but comprises <2% of individuals with ASD. Transformative treatments, though possibly not “cures,” seem most likely to emerge from the second approach, but in a small group of children. In contrast, if the first approach is successful, we can expect a treatment that benefits a larger group of children, but likely benefits them less.
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Speaker presents theoretical and experimental evidence that, contrary to conventional wisdom in invasion biology, genetics plays an important role in invasion dynamics of insects. Ladybird beetles, flour beetles, and white flies are used as model systems. [Show ID: 23282]
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Kelly A. Frazer, the founding chief of the Division of Genome Sciences in the Department of Pediatrics at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, presents her latest research on mining “Big Data” to discover tumor-specific molecules for the diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer. Series: "Cavendish Global Impact Forum 2015" [Show ID: 29678]
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The alarming increase in the number of individuals diagnosed with autism has given rise to two parallel public health crises.
In most cases, this crisis is presented as the urgent need to identify the causes of this increase. An equally compelling component of this crisis is our society’s inability to provide appropriate treatments and supports to the growing number of people diagnosed with autism and their families. In response to this challenge, the United States as a whole and many states individually have enacted legislation and other policy mechanisms, often in the absence of any evidence supporting them, to increase access to autism-related care. This presentation will review these mechanisms and the results of studies that attempt to measure the effects of these policies. Series: "MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 28239] -
Guinevere F. Eden, Georgetown University Medical Center, highlights the importance of distinguishing between cause and consequence of dyslexia. Reading is a cultural invention and has to be learned through explicit instructions, resulting in the utilization of a variety of brain areas that were not designed to read specifically. This presentation will show how brain imaging technology has been used to reveal brain areas that are involved in word processing in typical readers and how these differ in children and adults with reading disability (e.g. dyslexia). Series: "MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 29515]
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The MIND Institute is investigating the use of electronic tablets to support children with neurodevelopmental disorders in reading comprehension and communication. Researchers and clinicians will share some of the positive outcomes. Representatives from Navigate Autism, a website in development by the UC Davis School of Education, will demonstrate its use as an educational tool. Series: "MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 28238]
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What's it like Inside a Bee? Genetic Approaches to Honey Bee Health [Show ID: 29373]
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Thinking outside the cubicle to provide practical solutions to the farmers [Show ID: 28926]
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Exploiting Infection Bottlenecks in the Mosquito to Control Human Disease [Show ID: 29231]
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