Investigator Profiles
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24 November 2011Comments ( 0 )
The language deficit in autism is complex and diverse. With a no-nonsense and thoughtful approach, Helen Tager-Flusberg has devoted her career to sorting it all out.
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21 July 2011Comments ( 7 )Wendy Chung planned to spend her career in a research lab, identifying rare pathologies. But life had other plans for her.
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23 June 2011Comments ( 2 )The ever-curious and energetic Ricardo Dolmetsch is taking skin cells from individuals with various types of autism and turning them into neurons in the lab. The approach could reveal the cellular basis of the disorder and point to new treatments.
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9 May 2011Comments ( 0 )Few scientists have a career that spans as wide a spectrum in autism research as Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. And fewer still garner effusive compliments from those who don’t agree with them.
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14 April 2011Comments ( 0 )Thomas Südhof has achieved stellar scientific results with a style that colleagues call typically German — sober, meticulous and highly competitive.
