Understanding Autism through Bedside to Bedside Translational Neuroimaging matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in clinic sessions and day-to-day service delivery. In Autism through Bedside to Bedside Translational Neuroimaging, for this course, the practical stakes show up in service continuity, accurate reporting, and defensible clinical decisions, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Understanding the brain mechanisms that lead to features of autism with neuroimaging has been an important yet difficult challenge of the past two decades. Recent breakthroughs in understanding how the brain is "wired up" and the ability to study clinical populations with new-onset symptoms after brain injuries, like stroke, have led to new insights into how brain networks drive human behavior. In this talk, Dr. Cohen presents ongoing work from Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital that seeks to understand which brain networks are involved in specific features or symptoms also seen Autism.
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Dr. Alexander Li Cohen is a physician-scientist and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received his B.A. in Biology and Biomedical Physics and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and completed his residency training in pediatrics and child neurology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He moved to Boston Children’s Hospital in 2016 where he completed a clinical fellowship in pediatric behavioral neurology followed by a T32 postdoctoral research fellowship prior to joining the faculty in 2018. He now sees patients as part of the new multidisciplinary Brain, Mind, and Behavior Center and is the Director of both the Laboratory of Translational Neuroimaging and the Data Organization Collaborative Service for the Rosamund Stone Zander Translational Neuroscience Center. His current research focuses on bedside-to-bedside translation by studying patients with brain lesions that lead to specific symptoms also seen in neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and ADHD and testing ways to modulate these brain circuits with non-invasive neuromodulation such as TMS and real-time fMRI neurofeedback. His work has been supported by the Child Neurology Foundation, the NIMH, and the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative.
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