Self-harm in secondary schools; Prevalence, School Level Influences, and Interventions

Rasanat Fatima Nawaz, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 11 December 2024, 11:30-12:30

Cognitive aging in (older) autistic adults

Prof. Hilde M. Geurts, University of Amsterdam.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:30-12:30

Social reward response as a lens to examine autism in and outside the lab

Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 11:30-12:30

How Autistic minds become Hackers and Cybersecurity Specialists

Jonathan Scott-Lee, HSBC.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 11:30-12:30

How Autistic Minds become Hackers and Cybersecurity Specialists

Jonathan Scott-Lee, HSBC.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 02 October 2024, 11:30-12:30

Developing and evaluating interventions to support children with autism or other developmental disabilities in low-income contexts: insights from the SPARK project in Ethiopia and Kenya

Prof. Rosa Hoekstra, King's College London.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 18 September 2024, 11:30-12:30

Autistic People's Access to Services in Europe

Dr Siti Nurnadhirah Binte Mohd Ikhsan, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 04 September 2024, 11:30-12:30

Twenty years of sex influences on the brain: Some perspective on where we were, where we are, and where we are going

Larry Cahill.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 24 July 2024, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Life: Music Therapy, Active Noise Cancelling and Neonatal Intensive Care

Dr. Artur C Jaschke, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 17 July 2024, 11:30-12:30

Nine Minds; Inner Lives on the Spectrum

Doors Open 12:30pm; Talk starts 1pm; Refreshments from 2pm. If you would like to attend in person, please book your place on EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-autism-research-lecture-with-daniel-tammet-tickets-895238601757

Daniel Tammet.

Winstanley Lecture Hall (http://www.acs-cam.org.uk/CRSS/venue/venue_CRSS.html).

Wednesday 10 July 2024, 12:30-14:00

Lessons from a lifetime of leading with autism

Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Friday 07 June 2024, 10:30-11:30

Perceptual decision-making in autism: From neurochemistry to cognition

Nazia Jassim, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Sex differences in co-occurring conditions among autistic individuals

Miriam Martini, Karolinska Institutet.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 17 April 2024, 11:30-12:30

From precision medicine for autism to precision support for neurodivergent people: Why we need to consider dynamic interactions between brain, body and the social environment to better understand each other.

Eva Loth, King's College London.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 11:30-12:30

Neural Sociometrics: Precision assessment of parent-child brain-behaviour interaction dynamics

Professor Victoria Leong, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 11:30-12:30

Autistic Relationships Across the Lifespan: Family, Friends, Lovers and Others

Sarah Douglas.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

Increasing access to early diagnosis and assessment of autism via objective and cost-effective eye-tracking-based tools

Ami Klin, PhD, Marcus Autism Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine. .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Jason Arday

Jason Arday, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

Sensory hypersensitivity and poor sleep - understanding neural mechanisms during early development

Teodora Gliga, University of East Anglia.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 11:30-12:30

New directions in autism early detection, biomarker discovery and understanding heterogeneity using eye tracking and brain imaging

Dr Karen Pierce, Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego; Co-Director, UCSD Autism Center of Excellence.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

***CANCELLED*** Twenty years of sex influences on the brain: Some perspective on where we were, where we are, and where we are going

Larry Cahill .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 04 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

The Spectrum of Neurodiverse Talent in Banking Technology

Jonathan Scott-Lee, Autism Centre of Excellence and Autism Research Centre; HSBC.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 13 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

Autism-CHIME: Can music therapy support autistic children’s communication skills or anxiety?

Claire Howlin, Trinity College Dublin.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 30 October 2023, 11:30-12:30

Autism and the Criminal Justice System: Achieving Best Evidence

Katie Maras, Centre for Applied Autism Research (CAAR), University of Bath.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 31 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

Educational Outcomes of Students with Special Educational Needs in the United Kingdom

Elizabeth Weir (University of Cambridge).

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 24 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

Impacts and experiences of psychiatric diagnosis: The case of autism

Cliódhna O'Connor, University College Dublin.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 17 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

Empathic disequilibrium – a novel conceptualization of the role of empathy in psychopathology and beyond

Florina Uzefovsky, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 10 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

Increased autism diagnosis in the UK

Ginny Russell, University of Exeter.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 19 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

Autism Research for Autistic Flourishing

Liz Pellicano, University College London.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 22 May 2023, 11:30-12:30

A functioning neuroanatomy of autism

Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 27 March 2023, 11:30-12:30

Ageing on the Autism Spectrum

Prof Francesca Happe.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 23 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Autism Research: State of the Field and Future Directions

Zachary J. Williams, Vanderbilt University .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

What have we learned about autism from infants?

Tony Charman, King's College London.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

Autistic Friendships

Prof. Tony Attwood, Associate Professor at Griffith University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Autistic Friendships

Prof. Tony Attwood, Associate Professor at Griffith University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

SENSORY SUBTYPES IN AUTISM: State of the Evidence & Future Directions

Professor Alison Lane, Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre School of Psychology & Public Health, La Trobe University .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 12:30-01:30

The neuroscience of resilience: Lessons from autism

Mayada Elsabbagh, McGill University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 14 September 2022, 12:30-01:30

Taking heterogeneity seriously: Towards new research and support strategies

***PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME OF ARCLUB TALKS***

Beatriz Lopez, University of Portsmouth.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 20 July 2022, 12:30-01:30

Perception and learning in autism

Nazia Jassim, PhD candidate, Autism Research Centre.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 27 June 2022, 15:30-16:30

Theory of mind, gender, and human progress | Empathy, psychopathy, and brain structure

Marcin Aleksander Radecki.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 20 June 2022, 15:30-16:30

Neurodevelopmental risk assessment in the COVID-19 Mother Baby Outcomes (COMBO) Initiative at Columbia University

Dr. Dani Dumitriu, Columbia University Iriving Medical Center.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 13 June 2022, 15:30-16:30

Promoting Psychological Health Among Adolescents and Adults on the Autism Spectrum

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time

Prof. Somer Bishop & Dr. Shuting Zheng, University of California San Francisco.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 06 June 2022, 15:30-16:30

Neuroplacentology

Anna Penn, Columbia University & NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 16 May 2022, 15:30-16:30

Novel Digital Health Approaches to Early Autism Screening

Geraldine Dawson, Duke University School of Medicine.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 28 February 2022, 15:30-16:30

Dyadic intervention for autism in the prodrome and preschool – developmental effects, mechanisms and service implication

Jonathan Green, University of Manchester.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 07 February 2022, 15:30-16:30

The importance of early diagnosis for improving social communication in children with ASD

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time

Ilan Dinstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 31 January 2022, 15:30-16:30

The ADHD polygenic score

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time

Angelica Ronald, Birkbeck University of London.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 24 January 2022, 15:30-16:30

The ‘autism advantage’ in the workplace: what the latest research tells us

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time

Adam Feinstein.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 17 January 2022, 15:30-16:30

Brain charts for the human lifespan

Richard Bethlehem ( ARC).

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Tuesday 27 July 2021, 15:30-16:30

Digital Transformation of Autism Pathway

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm BST

Dr Venkat Reddy MBBS, MRCP (UK), FRCPCH..

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 26 July 2021, 15:30-16:30

**CANCELLED*** Everyday Autism

Please note that this talk has been cancelled and will be hosted in the 2021-2022 year

Liz Pellicano, Macquarie University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 19 July 2021, 11:00-12:00

Understanding and treating autism: a dual approach based on the Neuroarcheology concept

Y Ben-Ari, Neurochlore, BABiomedical and The Ben-Ari Institute of Neuroarcheology (IBEN- Marseille, France).

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 12 July 2021, 15:30-16:30

Genetic correlates of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism

Varun Warrier, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 05 July 2021, 15:30-16:30

Autism and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - an examination of a co-occurrence of conditions

Ofer Golan, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 28 June 2021, 15:30-16:30

The gut microbiome and neurodevelopmental disorders

Alejandro Arias Vásquez, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour │ Radboud university medical centre.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 21 June 2021, 15:30-16:30

Immune origins of sex differences in the brain

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time

Margaret M McCarthy, James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean’s Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 14 June 2021, 15:30-16:30

The connection between epilepsy and autism spectrum disorder: pearls from the clinical side

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm BST (due to daylight savings time change)

Sarah Spence, Harvard Medical School.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 07 June 2021, 15:30-16:30

(At least) 10 things we learned from autistic girls and women in the past 10 years

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm BST

Dr. Meng-Chuan Lai, University of Toronto.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 24 May 2021, 15:30-16:30

Health status and health care utilization among transition-age youth and adults on the autism spectrum

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm BST (due to daylight savings time change)

Lisa Croen, Director Autism Research Program at Kaiser Permanente Northern California.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 26 April 2021, 15:30-16:30

Personalizing interventions in autism: Research considerations that can inform practice

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm BST (due to daylight savings time change)

Connie Kasari; Professor of Human Development and Psychology at UCLA.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 12 April 2021, 15:30-16:30

Family-based study of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Maja Bućan, University of Pennsylvania.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 22 March 2021, 15:30-16:30

Understanding the substance use of autistic adults: a mixed methods approach

Elizabeth Weir (University of Cambridge).

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 08 March 2021, 15:30-16:30

Quality of life and mental health in autism

Beth Oakley (King's College London).

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 01 March 2021, 15:30-16:30

CANCELLED: Girls and women on the autism spectrum

Dr William Mandy, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 10:30-11:30

CANCELLED: CATCh-uS as we fall: transition between child and adult services for young people with ADHD

Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

Autism prevalence, social deprivation and access to services in England: A big data approach

Dr. Andres Roman-Urrestarazu .

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

Voice processing in autism

Dr Stefanie Schelinski, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

The exposome in psychiatry: Using environmental data to understand variability in developmental psychopathology

Dr. Ran Barzilay, University of Pennsylvania.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Monday 27 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Public perceptions of genetic research and autism

Deborah Oakley.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Can the face predict the brain? The association between facial morphology and autism spectrum disorder

Dr Diana Tan, School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 10:30-11:30

The value of student projects in autism research: Findings from studies of disordered eating, gender identity, and career choice

Dr Gareth Richards, School of Psychology, Newcastle University.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 10:30-11:30

The Early Start Denver Model in autistic preschoolers: a treatment trial

Dr Ofer Golan, Associate Professor, Autism Research Lab, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University .

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 10:30-11:30

Autism and the criminal justice system

Dr Clare Allely, Reader in Forensic Psychology, University of Salford.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 10:30-11:30

Autism and Emotion: Perspectives from Affective Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, and Computer Vision.

Dr John Herrington, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Sex differences and the neural correlates of repetitive behaviour

Dr. David Evans, Professor of Psychology, Bucknell University, Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Longitudinal analysis of intracortical microstructural profiles during adolescent development

Dr Richard Bethlehem, British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Experience of Motherhood for Autistic Women

Sarah Crockford, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Understanding vulnerability and related outcomes in autism using genetics

Dr Varun Warrier, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Exploring self-injury in autism spectrum conditions

Rachel Moseley, Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 10:30-11:30

Sensory Reactivity in Autism Spectrum Conditions

Dr Teresa Tavassoli, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Reading.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Atypical neurogenesis and E/I precursor imbalance in autism iPSCs

Dr Dwaipayan Adhya, Postdoctoral Research Scientist Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Visiting Scientist, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College, London .

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 10:30-11:30

Sensory processing in autism – Core phenotypic status?

Dr. Caroline Robertson, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth University, Director of the Dartmouth Autism Research Initiative.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

A real-life gift? The practical application of increased perceptual capacity in autism.

Dr Anna Remington, Director, Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) UCL Institute of Education, University College London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 10:30-11:30

Investigating Sensory Prediction in Autism Spectrum Conditions

Johanna Finnemann, PhD Student, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 10:30-11:30

Mechanistic insights from genome-wide association studies of reproductive traits

Professor Ken Ong, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 11 July 2018, 10:30-11:30

Progressing from gene discovery to the biology of autism

Dr Stephan Sanders, Associate Professor, Dept. Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 14:00-15:00

A longitudinal study on the effect of testosterone and estradiol on empathy and systemizing (EQ-SQ): from amniotic fluid to adolescence.

Tess Beking, PhD Student, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

Self-Other Processes in ASD - the Case of Empathy

Dr Idalmis Santiesteban, ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow and Affiliate Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

Understanding the genetics of autism from the genetics of related traits

Varun Warrier, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 10:30-11:30

Altered responses to social chemosignals in autism spectrum disorder

Dr Yaara Shapira, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 10:30-11:30

Double talk on Autism genetics

Dr Gokul Ramaswami and Dr Hyejung Won, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 10:30-11:30

fNIRS shines a light on early atypical brain responses in autism

Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Co-Investigator and Lead Psychologist on the Brain Imaging for Global Health Study (BRIGHT); Head of NIRS Lab, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 10:30-11:30

Repetitive Behavior and Restricted Interests: Developmental, Genetic, and Neural Correlates

Professor David Evans, Professor of Psychology at Bucknell University and Visiting Researcher at the Autism Research Centre.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 10:30-11:30

Tracking neurobiological factors of language developmental difficulties

Dr. Gesa Schaadt, Research Scientist (Post-Doc) at the Clinic of Cognitive Neurology, Medical Faculty, University Leipzig, Germany and the Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 10:30-11:30

Autism Imaging & Genetics

Dr Richard Bethlehem, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 10:30-11:30

New Insights in Immunopsychiatry (Provisional Title)

Professor Ed Bullmore, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 10:30-11:30

Behavioural phenotypes of children born preterm: what we know and future research avenues

Dr Hilary Wong, Academic Clinical Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge; Senior Specialty Registrar, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, University College London Hospital.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 10:30-11:30

Decomposing heterogeneity in the autisms

Dr Michael Lombardo, Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus Center for Applied Neuroscience, University of Cyprus; Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Monday 29 January 2018, 10:30-11:30

The impact of parental traits on the phenotypes of children with genomic copy number variations

Professor David Evans, Professor of Psychology at Bucknell University and Visiting Researcher at the Autism Research Centre.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 10:30-11:30

Binocular vision and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Dr Jan Skerswetat, Lecturer in Vision Science at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Vision and Hearing Science, Anglia Ruskin University.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 13 December 2017, 10:30-11:30

Neural synchrony through gaze in adult-infant dyads

Victoria Leong, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore & Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 10:30-11:30

Weighing the past against the present: computational approaches to understand learning and uncertainty autism

Dr Rebecca Lawson, Research Associate, Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 12 July 2017, 10:30-11:30

Insights from oxytocin administration and fMRI studies in high functioning youth with ASD

Ilanit Gordon, Senior Lecturer at Bar Ilan University, Department of Psychology and Gonda Brain Research Center.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 10:30-11:30

The impact of personal relevance and person perception on social cognition

Dr Paola Ricciardelli, 1) Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy; 2) Milan Centre for Neuroscience, Italy.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 10:30-11:30

The story of the infinity principles: a link between autism and a person's potential

Rhys Jenkins.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 10:30-11:30

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 10:30-11:30

Hypersensitivity to low intensity fearful faces in autism when fixation is constrained to the eyes

Dr Amandine Lassalle, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MGH / Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 10:30-11:30

Genetic connections between neurodevelopment, autism & schizophrenia

Jeffrey Barrett, Group Leader, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Director, Open Targets.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 10:30-11:30

Sex and gender as moderators for the presentation and emergence of autism: Myths and unresolved questions

Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Clinician Scientist in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH and O’Brien Scholar within the Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative with CAMH, the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto..

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 21 March 2017, 10:30-11:30

Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Cognitive Models of Autism

Prof Kenneth Richman, Professor of Philosophy and Health Care Ethics, School of Arts and Sciences, MCPHS University.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 10:30-11:30

In vivo Evidence of Reduced Integrity of the Grey-White Matter Boundary in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Derek Andrews, PhD Candidate at The Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 10:30-11:30

The cross-cultural challenges in the identification and diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: a conceptual framework

Anne de Leeuw, Researcher at VU Medical Centre Amsterdam and Dr Rosa Hoekstra, Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 10:30-11:30

Can people with developmental disorders function successfully as bilinguals?

Dr Napoleon Katsos, Reader in Experimental Pragmatics & Dr Ozge Ozturk, Postdoc at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 10:30-11:30

Toddlers with autism and their parents: Lessons learned from an ASD Baby-Sib study about measurement, assessment and clinical judgement

Dr Greg Pasco, Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 10:30-11:30

Internal Bodily Sensations, Emotion, and Autism Spectrum Conditions

Punit Shah, Researcher in the Department of Neuroimaging, King's College London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 10:30-11:30

People with Autism Spectrum Conditions make more consistent decisions

Dr George Farmer, Research Associate, Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 10:30-11:30

Altered senses and excited brains: investigating the neural basis of autism

Dr Steven Chance, Associate Professor in Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 10:30-11:30

Facial masculinisation in the autism spectrum

Diana Tan, School of Psychology and Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 28 September 2016, 10:30-11:30

Facial masculinisation in the autism spectrum

Diana Tan, PhD Student, School of Psychology and Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 28 July 2016, 10:30-11:30

Testosterone and Autism iPSC-neurons - A Functional Genomics Study

Dwaipayan Adhya, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 24 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED

Dr Florina Uzefovsky, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Neuroinflammation in autism

Dr John Suckling, Director of MRI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House).

Thursday 02 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED - Prenatal estrogens and autism risk

Alexa Pohl, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Understanding cellular and molecular pathways of human preterm brain injury

Professor David Rowitch, Head Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cultivating Speech in Non-Verbal Children with Autism

Dr Aaron Ralby, Linguisticator Ltd.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House).

Thursday 07 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Computer-Assisted Training for People with Autism who Lack Communicative Speech: Can Remediating Sensorimotor Dyscontrol Open a `Back Door' to Social Communicative Development?

Dr Matthew Belmonte, Reader at Nottingham Trend University.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 10:30-11:30

CANCELLED

Speaker to be confirmed.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House).

Thursday 03 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Is the cingulate cortex a useful biomarker of Autism pathology? Task-free and task-based approaches.

Dr Josh Balsters, Neural Control of Movement Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED

Dr Greg Davis, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 10 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

CALM and collected: A dimensional approach to developmental disorders of attention, learning and memory

Professor Susan Gathercole, Director of the MRC - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Repetition suppression and face memory in the neurotypical and autistic population

Dr Michael Ewbank, MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Does testosterone predict autistic traits? Unpacking the assumption of Gaussian noise

Alexa Pohl, PhD Student, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 10:30-11:30

Four Key Words: Making Autism Research Work for Women

Dena Gassner.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Wednesday 30 September 2015, 13:00-14:00

Visual perception and heterogeneity in the autism phenotype

Dr Elizabeth Milne, Sheffield Autism Research Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 21 July 2015, 13:00-14:00

Latest Research in Autism Genetics

Joseph Buxbaum, Director of the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, and Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House).

Tuesday 23 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr Anna Remington, Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University of London.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House).

Monday 15 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

The emotional modulation of gaze-oriented attention and its influence by autistic-like traits

Dr Amandine Lassalle.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

The Biological Basis of Empathy Development: From Genes to Brain and Anything in Between

Dr Florina Uzefovsky, Autism Research Centre.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House).

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

IMFAR Practice Talks

Dorothea Floris, PhD Student, Autism Research Centre.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Testosterone and the Brain: A molecular study using an autism stem cell model

Dwaipayan Adhya, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

The brain of the beholder: Honouring individual representational idiosyncrasies.

Ian Charest, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

The course of developmental health in autism spectrum disorder; the pre-school years

Professor Peter Szatmari, Chief, Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative at SickKids and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health & Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House).

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Studies of prenatal testosterone and autism-relevant behaviour in non-human animals

Dr Gillian Brown, Lecturer, School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, UK.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Brain hypoconnectivity as a potential endophenotype of autism

Dr Rachel Moseley & Dr Rolf Ypma, BCNI, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

White matter correlates of visual imagery in synesthesia

Dr Kirstie Whitaker, Research Associate Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 09 December 2014, 13:00-14:00

Investigating recollection in autism spectrum disorder

Rose Cooper, Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House).

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Amber Ruigrok, Autism Research Centre.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Emotional and cognitive empathy: from heritability to neurotransmitters

Florina Uzefovsky, Post Doc at the Autism Research Centre.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Search for extra-terrestrial integrity - SETi. A Neuroscientific Study of ‘Theory of Mind’ with a Nonverbal Task Employing Algorithmically Generated Sounds of Varying Dissonance Level.

Fernando Bravo, Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House).

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Professor Dr. Thomas Bourgeron, Génétique Humaine et Fonctions Cognitives Institut Pasteur.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Monday 06 October 2014, 11:00-12:00

Switching between affect and ratio: The basolateral amygdala

Dr David Terburg, Department of Psychology, Utrecht University .

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 13 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Autism: what the genes tell us

Varun Warrier, MPhil Student at the ARC, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 06 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Influence of facial expressions on attention to gaze in autism: Neural correlates and development

Dr Amandine Lassale, Autism Research Centre.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 23 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Increasing autism awareness and autism service provision in Ethiopia: the HEAT+ project

Dr Rosa Hoekstra & Dr Bethlehem Tekola, The Open University.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 11 April 2014, 14:00-15:00

Shedding Light on the Newborn Brain

Dr Topun Austin, Consultant Neonatologist, Cambridge Centre for Perinatal Neuroscience.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

How do young brains mature? UCHANGE design, techniques and some early results

Prof John Suckling, Director of Research, BCNI.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 21 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

The Anatomy of Violence

Prof Adrian Raine, University of Pennsylvania Dept Psychology, Visiting Professor University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 07 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Emotion Processing and Intervention in Autism Spectrum Conditions

Dr Sarah Cassidy, Research Coordinator, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge,.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 24 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

The Role of Empathy in Musical Preferences

David Greenberg, PhD Student Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 29 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 15 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Leo Kanner 70 years on - A History of Autism

Adam Feinstein.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 01 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Does recurrent ASD risk depend on whether younger siblings were conceived or born before their elder siblings were diagnosed?

Prof. Michael Beenstock, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Visiting Fellow at Fitzwilliam College.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 18 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Human computer interaction in autism research

Dr Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Reader in Psychology, Heriot-Watt University.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 04 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Music and the Brain - Forming and Connecting Memories

Ittai Shapira.

Recital room at the Music Faculty on West Road (11 W Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DP).

Monday 30 September 2013, 14:00-15:00

Atypical visual integration in autism

Caroline Robertson, Autism Research Centre.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Monday 24 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Brain imaging and the nosology of "childhood psychoses"

Prof John Suckling, Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 20 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Talk has been cancelled!

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 07 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Epac2, from protein to in vivo function: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders

Dr Deepak Srivastava, Department of Neuroscience and Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 24 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Brain imaging findings in BPD

Dr Robert Dudas, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Overlooked and Undiagnosed: The female expression of the autistic phenotype

Alexandra Head, PhD Candidate at Deakin University, Australia.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Monday 22 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

Dopaminergic Modulation of Reward Learning in Social Contexts

Dr Christoph Eisenegger, Department of Psychology.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 15 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Steroid Hormones and the Maternal-Placental-Fetal System: Relevance to Autism?

Alexa Pohl, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (next to Douglas House).

Monday 04 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

The visual system in autism: what binocular rivalry can tell us

Jan Freyberg, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 01 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

The Odd Pair of Autism and Transsexualism

Dr. Annelou de Vries, Department of Paediatrics, VUmc.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Bio-behavioral Synchrony and the Cross-Generation Transmission of Social Adaptation and Psychopathology

Dr. Ruth Feldman, Bar Ilan University.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 01 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

How do individuals with autism reason about the physical world?

Dr Sara Baker, Faculty of Education.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Monday 03 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

Autism in DSM-5 (and beyond)

Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 30 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Embodied Morality

Dr Simone Schnall, Director of the Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 16 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Clinical characteristics of young adult males with autism spectrum disorders sentenced to prison for violent or sexual offences

Dr Björn Hofvander, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 09 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Are auditory sensory behaviours associated with ASD a consequence of atypical low-level auditory processing?

Dr José Alcántara.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 18 July 2012, 13:00-14:00

Autism and Human Cognitive Diversity, from Physiology to Psychology to Pedagogy

Dr Matthew Belmonte.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 29 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

When maths and mindreading meet: sex-dependent empathizing/systemizing interactions, and insights into ASC development

Jeffrey Valla.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Monday 11 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

It's the thought that counts: neural mechanisms of Theory of Mind in typical development and in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Dr Rebecca Saxe, Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 10:30-11:30

IMFAR Practice Talks Pt 2

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 11 May 2012, 12:45-13:45

IMFAR Practice Talks Pt 1

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 04 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Exploring the underconnectivity theory of autism using independent component analysis

Richard Bethlehem.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic,18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 23 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Asperger's biostratigraphy and the price of fish

Jon Adams.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic,18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 16 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

A search for a latent genetic variable: Important or out of date?

Professor James Leckman.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

The role of alexithymia in autism

Dr. Geoff Bird, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.

Hexagon Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

Autobiographical memory in autism

Dr Kate Plaisted Grant, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Dept of Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre.

Friday 02 March 2012, 12:30-13:30

What's special about the female autistic brain?

Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Postdoctoral Research ARC.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 17 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Autitouch: Supporting autism diagnosis with multitouch

Freena Eijffinger, CEO Autitouch.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 03 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

The brain basis of insistence of sameness within the Autism spectrum

Charlton Cheung.

Hexagon Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road.

Monday 12 December 2011, 13:00-14:00

Effect of prenatal testosterone exposure on language development in early childhood.

Lauren Hollier.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road.

Friday 09 December 2011, 13:00-14:00

Atypical gaze processing in autism; a neural deficit or difference?

Dr. Chris Ashwin, University of Bath.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road.

Friday 18 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Mix technology-enhanced learning and behavioral approaches with Nao the robot.

Dr. Olivier Joubert, Aldebaran Robotics.

Hexagon Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road.

Friday 04 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Neurodevelopmental basis of social and non-social processing differences in children with autism

Dr. Joe McCleery, University of Birmingham.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic,18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 21 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

The ‘social’ brain in ASC: differences in the processing of eye gaze and at rest

Dr. Elisabeth von den Hagen, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 07 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

The latent structure of the autism phenotype

Rachel Grove.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 01 July 2011, 13:00-14:00

You talkin' to me? Processing self-relevant ostensive cues across modalities

Raliza Stoyanova , Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 03 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

"Embodied semantics in autism spectrum conditions"

Friedemann Pulvermuller , MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

The evolution and development of social cognition: lessons from corvids and children

Professor N S Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 18 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

Getting to know you: The acquisition of new face representations is impaired in autism

Dr Owen Churches, Department of Psychiatry.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 14 January 2011, 12:00-13:00

Computing and emotions

Professor Robinson, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 19 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

"Theory of Mind and Peer Relationships in late childhood and adolescence"

Dr Claire Hughes, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 12 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Motion processing in autism: atypical bounded integration

Caroline Robertson.

Library (first floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 05 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

The effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on imitation ability; implications for individuals with Autism.

Anna Moffat, Flinders University.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

"White matter abnormalities underlying autism spectrum conditions in women"

Amber Ruigrok.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 02 July 2010, 13:00-14:00

The specificity of face detection in autism

Owen Churches.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 18 June 2010, 13:00-14:00

Predicting progress in PECS use by children with autism

Dr Greg Pasco.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 11 June 2010, 13:00-14:00

"Second life demonstration"

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 28 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Is it possible to extent the E-S theory for explaining the individual differences in cognition in general population? : Evidence from children and university students

Prof Dr Akio Wakabayashi, Department of Psychology, Chiba University.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 30 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Normal clinical visual function in individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions

Dr Keziah Latham, Department of Vision & Hearing Sciences and Vision & Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 12 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Diminished adaptation in autism: A working hypothesis

Dr. Liz Pellicano (Institute of Education, London).

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 26 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Joaquin Fuentes, MD,Head of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Unit of Policlinica Gipuzkoa (San Sebastian).

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 09 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Attention to faces in autism: An ERP study

Owen Churches, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road.

Friday 13 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Autism: what has genetics taught us?

Professor Dan Geschwind,UCLA School of Medicine.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 30 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

How can we benefit from autism theories?

Dr. Meng Chuan Lai, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 23 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Psychometric properties of Childhood Autism Spectrum Test

Chiara Horlin, Neurocognitive Development Unit, University of Western Australia.

Library (first floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 15 September 2009, 11:00-12:00

Reciprocal imprinting produces sex differences in autistic spectrum traits

Gill Ragsdale.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 12 June 2009, 12:00-13:00

Asperger syndrome and the interbrain

This will launch Prof. Tantam's new book with the same title. A free lunch will follow the talk.

Prof. Digby Tantam, University of Sheffield and University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 22 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Tony Attwood, Griffiths University, Brisbane, Australia.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 10:00-11:00

Emotion and Memory: Explorations of the Amygdala.

Prof. Joseph LeDoux.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 17 April 2009, 12:30-13:30

Born on the wrong planet? Using forum postings to test hypotheses about special interests and religious beliefs of autistic spectrum young adults

Prof Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Boston University.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road.

Friday 13 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

A structural and functional imaging study of autism and its extended phenotype

please note earlier start time

Dr. Michael Spencer, ARC and Developmental Psychiatry.

Library (first floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 06 March 2009, 12:00-13:00

Hierarchical modularity in human fMRI brain networks

please note earlier start time

Dr. David Meunier, Brain Mapping Unit.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 27 February 2009, 12:00-13:00

Journal Club

Michael Lombardo, ARC.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 06 February 2009, 12:00-13:00

Genetics of Autism

Patricia Lewin, MD, IntegraGen.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 23 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

The Imprinted Brain Theory of Autism

Dr. Christopher Badcock, Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 05 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Multimodal hypersensitivity in individuals with autism spectrum conditions

Teresa Tavassoli, Autism Research Centre.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 14 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Exploring the genetic and environmental causes of behaviours characteristic of autistic spectrum conditions

Dr. Angelica Ronald, Birkbeck College, London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 07 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

The Enhanced Perceptual Functioning Model of Autism

Prof. Laurent Mottron, University of Montreal, Canada.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Monday 20 October 2008, 10:00-12:00

A funny turn in the brain: fMRI on jokes

Tristan Bekinschtein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 17 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Design of robotic toys and game scenarios for behavioral training of autistic children.

Dr. Emilia I. Barakova, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 19 September 2008, 13:00-14:00

Supra-regional brain systems in autism spectrum. Perspectives from neuroimaging

note special day

Grainne McAlonan, University of Hong Kong.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Tuesday 29 July 2008, 13:00-14:00

An fMRI study of prior emotion processing on subsequent cognitive performance: relevance for psychiatric disorders

Dr. Nicholas Walsh, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 18 July 2008, 13:00-14:00

Pragmatic me, pragmatic you: the development of informativeness from a speaker's and a comprehender's perspective

Dr. Napoleon Katsos, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 20 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

To what extent are autistic traits and intellectual impairment genetically related? Insights from a large population based twin study

Dr. Rosa Hoekstra, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 06 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

IMFAR 2008 conference jottings

ARClub members.

Library (1st Floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 23 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Event Related Potential (ERP) studies of autism

Dr. Howard Ring (Centre for Learning Disabilities and ARC, Cambridge).

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 09 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Abnormalities in cultural knowledge in autism: a link between behaviour and cognition?

Dr. Eva Loth, Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Library (1st Floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 25 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

The magnocellular theory of autism

Dr. Kate Plaisted, Laboratory for Research into Autism, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 29 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Reading our own emotions: How good are we?

Jorrit de Kieviet and Bhismadev Chakrabarti (ARC).

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 15 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Three post-mortem studies of autism: new findings - TALK POSTPONED

Dr Andrew Dean (Cambridge Brain Bank).

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 07 December 2007, 00:00-00:00

The MRC Autism Imaging Multicentre Study (AIMS): An Update

please note later start time

Michael Lombardo (ARC).

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:30-15:30

Attention in autism: Evidence from change blindness studies

Dr. Chris Ashwin (Essex University, Affective Neuroscience Lab, and ARC).

Library (1st Floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 02 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Fear conditioning deficits in Conduct Disorder and Asperger's Syndrome: Implications for amygdala-based accounts of developmental psychopathology

Dr. Graeme Fairchild, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University.

Library (1st Floor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 13:00-14:00