Autism

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

Daniel Yang, Ph.D., assistant research professor of pediatrics, discussed a study about the improvement of a child's autism following pivotal response treatment, in an article on Spectrum.

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.

The long-term effects of childhood immunization can be a controversial subject in almost any setting. Recently, a panel of experts speaking as part of a George Washington University and ICF International forum sought to unravel issues surrounding the practice.

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…

Lauren Kenworthy, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children’s National Health System and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…

Valerie Hu, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, has found an important sex-dependent difference in the level of RORA protein in brain tissues of males and females. Specifically, females without autism have a slightly higher level of RORA in the frontal cortex of the brain than…

Valerie Hu, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, spoke to NBC News about new research showing that even siblings with autism often have very different DNA mutations from one another — strengthening evidence that autism is often just genetic bad luck.