IMFAR conference is next week
April 25, 2007 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
Autism conference to look at link to mercury poisoning, mirror neurons, genetics reads a headline announcing next week’s 6th International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) in Seattle (May 3rd-May5th). While mercury, and mercury poisoning, are often mentioned in connection with autism in the media, many, many other topics in autism research will be considered: Here is the full full schedule of abstracts. In particular, I highlighted research on prosody, language, and autism in China in an earlier post.
I’d like to be in Seattle to learn about all this—-next week is the last day of classes at my college (and my students were slumping in their seats today with what one referred to as “spring drowsiness”). If you are attending, I’d much like to learn what you hear (especially if it is about something other than mercury……).
The only presentation I’ve heard about dealt with oxytocin and autism. A coworker of mine went and promises to bring back handouts galore (I’m an information junkie/parent).
I’ve seen a number of postings on that and heard the researchers present on it a while ago at a conference—-thanks in advance for anything you find out!
Please let me know who is doing the research with oxytocin-researchers or companies
thx
The oxytocin study is being done at Mr. Sinai Medical Center in New York—-here is the information about the clinical trial.
And here’s an article referring to Dr Hollander’s work on ocytocin.