Our Research
The Brain Development and Disorders Project research is being carried out by ten principal investigators, with the assistance of over to 30 graduate and postdoctoral students and undergraduates. They are located in ten separate laboratories in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department located on Vassar Street in Cambridge. With specialties ranging from language to memory to vision, these researchers will combine their findings and assist each lab in reaching the greater goal of better diagnosis and treatment of developmental disorders.
"Electrophysiological biomarkers for autism"
" The fidelity and capacity of long term visual memory in individuals with autism"
"Self-related cognition in Asperger’s Syndrome"
"Search for mouse models of autism"
Yingxi Lin Lab
"Investigating the impact of abnormal neural activity on neural circuits"
Carlos Lois Lab
"Investigating the impact of abnormal neural activity on neural circuits"
"Autism and the neurobiology of generalization"
" The fidelity and capacity of long term visual memory in individuals with autism"
"Autism and the neurobiology of generalization"
"Neural mechanisms of social cognition in ASD"
Morgan Sheng Lab
"Mice lacking Shank postsynaptic scaffolds as an animal model of autism"
"Electrophysiological biomarkers for autism"
"Mechanisms of visual integration in individuals with autism"
"Using zebrafish and chemical screening to define function of autism and genes"
"Cortical development, plasticity, and autism"
Susumu Tonegawa Lab
"Identification of the functional interaction between FMRP and Pak"
