Minshew MD coming to LI.- Please Forward

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Date: April 11th 2005

Presenter: J Minshew, M.D

Time:9-4

Location: C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University Brookville, New

York

THE ROOM IS STILL TO BE ANNOUNCED

Description: New Developments in Autism and What they mean to you :

New research about how people with autism think and how that way of

thinking leads to their social and emotional deficits, focus on

details, and inflexibility.

Bio: J Minshew, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and

Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is a

research neurologist who has developed a model of the cognitive and

neural deficits in autism. Her analytic scientific work reflects

insights regarding the clinical syndrome won from years of working

with hundreds of patients with autism and the results of extensive

data collected. Her research, conducted in collaboration with her

extensive research team, has completed large-scale neuropsychologic

studies, eye movement and posturography studies, and structural and

functional imaging studies of high functioning autistic individuals.

This research has resulted in identification of deficits in complex

cognitive abilities across domains with reliance on intact simpler

abilities and evidence of under-development of connections of

neocortical systems and reliance on the activity of more basic

localized brain regions.

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