Neurochemical analyses for the investigation of atypical development and the bioeffects of psychopharmacological agents.
Autism and Neurodevelopment
Several YCSC research groups focus on how the social brain develops and how infants and children learn about the social world, including those with developmental disorders. Autism and neurodevelopment researchers integrate eye tracking, dense-array electroencephalography, neuroimaging, and more to understand the developmental trajectory of social cognition.
Anderson Lab Chawarska Lab Studying the early social and emotional development of children with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.Fernandez Lab Studying genetic risk and neurobiological causes and consequences in early onset psychiatric conditions.Gupta Lab Investigating the neurogenetic basis of autism spectrum disorder with a focus on multimodal analyses of understudied populations.Hoffman Lab Investigating the function of genes associated with neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders using a zebrafish system.Ibrahim Lab Emotion and Systems Neuroscience Lab: The Neuroscience of Emotion Regulation in Child Mental Health
Jou Group Improving quality of life for autism through borderless communities and biomedical research.Language, Learning, and Multisensory Brain (LLAMB) Lab Studying perceptual and cognitive development underlying the acquisition of speech and language in early development.McPartland Lab Studying behavior and brain systems to better understand the social experiences of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and to improve their quality of life.Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration Studying the dynamics of human early brain development.
Ventola Lab Providing Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) to children with ASD and investigating biological markers of treatment response.Sukhodolsky Lab Conducting clinical and translational research on neural mechanisms and effectiveness of novel cognitive, behavioral, and neuroscience-based interventions for autism spectrum disorder, pediatric irritability, and Tourette Syndrome.Vaccarino Lab Using human stem cells to recreate brain development in a dish for any given person, with the aim of discovering person-to-person differences in brain biology and understand the origin of neuropsychiatric disorders.