Karen Dobkins, Ph.D.

时间： 2015-06-29 16:00 - 18:00

地点： 王克桢楼1115

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are developmental disorders characterized by differences in a variety of social, communicative, and emotional behaviors, which occur in 1% of the population. Because ASD is not diagnosed reliably before the second or third year of life, a new approach to study development of the disorder involves working with infant siblings of children with ASD, who have a significantly increased risk (i.e., 10- to 20-fold) for developing ASD. We have been tracking development in these “High-Risk” infants from ages 3 months to 5 years to look for atypicalities that may be early signs of risk for ASD. This talk will present data showing that High-Risk infants show atypicalities on a variety of measures: visual, cognitive, language, social and even gastrointestinal, which can be seen in the first year of life. We hope that our results provide insight into the etiology of ASD, as well as lead to innovative treatments.

2015-06-29

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2015-06-29