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Over the past few years, companies — especially ones in the tech sector — are promoting “neurodiversity in the workplace” initiatives, because they’re learning how to tap into a pool of candidates that have a unique and valuable way of thinking and organizing tasks. A&E’s new docuseries The Employables documents how candidates and employers both need to change their mindsets during the job search process.
- March 12, 2018
Congratulation announcement to those members of our lab whose abstracts were accepted as poster presentations for the upcoming INSAR 2018 annual meeting.
- March 07, 2018
A ‘predictive coding’ theory of autism suggests that many of the condition’s hallmark traits occur when sensory input overrides expectation in the brain. Yale researchers, Katarzyna Chawarska, James McPartland and Philip Corlett, are featured.
- December 05, 2017
In the past, Yale investigators who led multicenter trials had to put together ad hoc study teams, relying on unconnected siloed services to carry out their research. At the end of these trials, these teams, which had compiled so much experience and knowledge, disbanded and their knowledge was lost. This system was inefficient and put Yale at a disadvantage when competing with other institutions for grants for multicenter studies.
- July 12, 2017
Autism and schizophrenia share a long and tangled history. Comparing the social features of the two conditions could lead to better treatments and a deeper understanding of each.
- June 19, 2017
A study by Yale Department of Psychiatry and Yale Child Study Center researchers found that adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) derive high friendship quality through their use of social media
- May 04, 2017
A multisite study based at the Child Study Center seeks to develop biomarkers to better diagnose and treat the often baffling disorder
- February 17, 2017
Announcement to congratulate Scott Jackson on his Pilot Research Award "Stimulating the Social Mind: Neural and Behavioral Effects of rTMS Stimulation over the pSTS on Social Cognition in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder"
- February 08, 2017
Announcement to congratulate all the members of the McPartland lab who received IMFAR awards, and all those whose abstract submissions were accepted as Posters to be presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research in San Franciso, CA in May.
- January 31, 2017
Moving brain imaging studies out of the lonely bore of an MRI machine into more naturalistic environments represents a much-needed next step for autism research.
