Fever has benefits beyond its role in fighting infection. According to a prospective study published in 2007 and to many anecdotal reports, fever can improve cognitive function and behavior in individuals with autism.
On 5 February 2010, the Simons Foundation gathered a panel of experts to discuss what initially appears to be a surprising and unrelated pair of subjects: autism and fever. Anecdotal reports have found that fever can improve cognitive function and behavior in individuals with autism.
Evan Eichler compares whole-genome and whole exome sequencing data of ASD indivduals and finds an enrichment of variants in putative noncoding regulatory elements in ASD.
Kamran Khodakhah is the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience Professor, as well as a professor within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology. He is also the chair of the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience and is the Florence and Irving Rubinstein Chair in Neuroscience.
Nick Frost is an adjunct clinical instructor at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. There, his thesis work in the laboratory of Thomas Blanpied focused on the regulation of actin polymerization within dendritic spines, utilizing super-resolution microscopy to track single molecules of polymerized actin moving within living neurons. He subsequently completed residency in adult neurology at the University California, San Francisco. His postdoctoral work with Vikaas Sohal has focused on the development of analytical techniques for identifying multineuron patterns of activity that encode information during social behaviors and on understanding how the generation of these multineuron patterns is altered in mouse models of autism.
Peri Kurshan is an assistant professor in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Brown University and obtained her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University, under the mentorship of Thomas Schwarz, studying synaptogenesis in Drosophila. She performed her postdoctoral work at Stanford University in the lab of Kang Shen before joining the faculty at Albert Einstein College in 2019.
Anthony Sharkey Ricciardulli graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017 with a B.S. in microbial biology. As an undergraduate, he investigated mechanisms of neurodevelopment during embryogenesis and developed expertise in cellular and molecular techniques. After graduation, he worked as a cellular engineer and tissue culture specialist in the laboratory of Fred Gage at the Salk Institute. There he generated patient-derived neurons to investigate how DNA repair processes and bioenergetics contribute to known neurodegenerative phenotypes using iPSC-derived human neurons. Prior to joining the Neuroscience Ph.D. Program at the University of Utah, he next worked at Sangamo Therapeutics, where his work focused on making AAV-delivered medicines targeting Parkinson’s disease, again using human iPSC-derived neurons to model this complex disease. Anthony joined the Neuroscience Ph.D. Program at the University of Utah where he has embarked on a joint project mentored by Nick Frost and Alex Shcheglovitov using three-dimensional human organoids to model circuit dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders.
The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2020 Annual Meeting to be held May 2020 was canceled, but virtual content is now available online. A selection of abstracts and e-Posters by SFARI Investigators, SFARI staff and collaborators are highlighted here.
Richard Huganir is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Professor and Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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