ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

CANCELLED

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

"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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

"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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

"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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

"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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

Journal Club

Michael Lombardo, ARC.

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

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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

ARClub Talks

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