Autism and the Mind/Brain

Saturday, November 5, 2016
2:30-4:30 pm
Past Event

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects more than 1% of the population. For many years, it was thought to be a rare disorder, resulting from a bad relationship of the children with their so-called refrigerator mothers. However, there is clear evidence now that autism results from abnormalities in brain development, and that the behavior... read more! »

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects more than 1% of the population. For many years, it was thought to be a rare disorder, resulting from a bad relationship of the children with their so-called refrigerator mothers. However, there is clear evidence now that autism results from abnormalities in brain development, and that the behavior observed in children is the consequence of disturbances in brain circuitry. We will explore the history of the diagnosis and treatment of this entity, current approaches and how they reflect advances in our understanding of the mind-brain.

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Participants

Andrew Gerber

Medical Director/CEO, the Austen Riggs Center
Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center in New York City

Andrew J. Gerber is the Medical Director/CEO of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Gerber completed his PhD in Psychology at the Anna Freud Centre and University College London where he... read more! »

Nouchine Hadjikhani

Associate Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Nouchine Hadjikhani, MD, PhD, does brain research at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in Boston, where she directs the Neurolimbic research laboratory. She is also invited Professor at the Gillberg Neuropsychiatric Center in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her initial focus of research was the visual system, which over time developed into several topics, including migraine, emotion... read more! »

Craig Newschaffer

Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University School of Public Health

Craig Newschaffer is founding director of the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University, a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Associate Dean for Research at the Drexel University School of Public Health, and Vice President of the International Society for Autism Research. Dr. Newschaffer is an epidemiologist whose main research focus... read more! »

Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele

Mortmer D. Sackler, M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry Columbia University

Dr. Veenstra-VanderWeele is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who uses molecular and translational neuroscience research tools in the pursuit of new treatments for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related genetic syndromes. As a predoctoral fellow, medical student, and resident, he trained in human molecular genetics in the laboratory at the University of Chicago. He expanded... read more! »

Martha Welch

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center

Director of the Nurture Science Program in Pediatrics

Director of the BrainGut Initiative in Developmental Neuroscience

Dr. Welch is Director of the Nurture Science Program in Pediatrics and Director of the BrainGut Initiative in Developmental Neuroscience. She is appointed Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology & Cell Biology at Columbia University Medical Center. She has been a pioneer in the treatment of emotional, behavioral and developmental... read more! »