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Friday Keynote Session
Friday, July 14, 2006: 8:30 AM-10:15 AM
RICC Ballroom (Rhode Island Convention Center)
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Autism: A Brain Disorder OR A Disorder that Affects the Brain
Autism: A Brain Disorder OR A Disorder that Affects the Brain
Content Area: Medicine and Research
Presenter:
Martha Herbert, MD, PhD
Pediatric Neurologist
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Dr. Martha Herbert is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, a Pediatric Neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and at Cambridge Hospital, and a member of the Harvard-MIT-MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. She also received the Cure Autism Now Innovator Award and directs the Cure Autism Now Foundation's Brain Development Initiative. Her research program includes studying what makes some autistic brains unusually large, how the parts of the brain are connected and coordinated with each other, and how we can measure changes in brain function that can result from treatment interventions.