Research Collaborations
Examples of DNL research collaborations include:
- Structural and functional MRI studies of the brain bases of autism and related conditions (A. Klin, Child Study Center, Yale University)
- Development of diffusion tensor imaging methodologies (L. Staib, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University)
- Studies of brain sequelae of childhood abuse and trauma (J. Kaufman, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University)
- Modeling visual salience in autism (G. Cotrell, University of California, San Diego)
- Visualization and analysis tools for structural and functional MR imaging (X. Papademetris, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University)
- Temporal lobe morphology in persons with continuous hallucinations and schizophrenia (R. Hoffman, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University)
- Electrophysiological indices of face processing and perceptual expertise in autism (J. McPartland, Child Study Center, Yale University) Let's Face It! Intervention Software
Another major goal of the DNL is to facilitate the work of trainees and to interface with existing postdoctoral training programs. To this end, the DNL has participated in the following studies:
- The role of the caudate nucleus in repetitive and stereotyped behaviors (L. Propper, visiting Fulbright scholar, Yale University)
- fMRI studies of savant calendar calculation skills (M. Thioux, postdoctoral fellow, Child Study Center, Yale University)
- Subcortical pathways of fear perception (B. Pasley, Child Study Center, Yale University; and graduate student, Department of Computer Science, New York University)
- Diffusion tensor imaging of brain fiber pathways (M. Jackowski, postdoctoral fellow, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Child Study Center, Yale University)
- fMRI studies of maternal perception of cries and the face of their own infant (J. Swain, postdoctoral fellow, Child Study Center, Yale University)
- fMRI studies of cross modal perception in autism (D. Robins, postdoctoral fellow, Child Study Center, Yale University)
- Brain morphology in Williams syndrome (A. Jackowski, postdoctoral fellow, Child Study Center and Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University)
- MRI studies of Prader Willi syndrome (A. Dimotropoulos, postdoctoral fellow, Child Study Center, Yale University)
- Social sematic representations in the ventral pathway (M. South, postdoctoral fellow, Child Study Center, Yale University)
- fMRI studies of theory of mind and theory of self (T. Vanderwal, postdoctoral fellow, Child Study Center, Yale University)
- fMRI studies of auditory perception of individuals (N. Abreu, undergraduate thesis, Yale University)