Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute

Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D., director of Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute and professor of pharmacology and physiology, was quoted in an article for Nature, discussing a study that found that the cells that have a role in autism vary in boys and girls.

Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D., director of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute and professor of pharmacology & physiology, was quoted in the Spectrum article about how the brains of women with autism compare to those of men.

Kevin Pelphrey, director of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute and professor of pharmacology & physiology, wrote an article for Spectrum about how technology can help to promote social inclusion of children

In two scientific papers published Tuesday, researchers identified two approaches that have the potential to help a large number of children with autism spectrum disorder through behavioral therapy.

As a budding neuroscientist, Kevin Pelphrey intended to study how the human brain understands other humans—knowledge for knowledge’s sake, as he described it. And it was mostly so he could play with scanners and analyze “cool-looking” pictures of the brain.

Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D., director of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute and professor of pharmacology and physiology, was published in JAMA Psychiatry about a new method to map and track the function of brain circuits affected by autism spectrum disorder in boys using brain…

Kevin Pelphrey will serve as the inaugural director of GW’s Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute. Dr. Pelphrey brings more than 15 years of experience in autism and neuroscience research, most recently as director of Yale University’s Center for Translational Developmental…

One out of every 88 children in the United States will develop autism sometime during the first three years of life, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.