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Eye-Tracking Technology
Work involves eye-tracking technology and pupillometry to help explain underlying brain function in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
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Sleep and Autism
Using several models of human genetic disorders with a high prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to study the mechanism by which sleep and development interact in ASD with a focus on epigenetic and transcriptional regulation.
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Prelinguistic and Language Development
This research takes a clinical and developmental approach to the study of the core and secondary symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), with an emphasis on prelinguistic and language development.