"Autism: Where we've been, where we are, and where we're going"
Friday, October 19, 1:30 p.m., Auditorium (basement) of ACB (U of L Ambulatory Care Building)

Nancy J. Minshew. M.D.  Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is a research neurologist who has developed a theory 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, structural MRI, and MRS (magnetic resonance spectroscopy) of high functioning autistic individuals.  This research has resulted in the definition of deficits in complex cognitive abilities across domains with the exception of the visual spatial domain and evidence of a neocortical systems as the primary site of CNS dysfunction. 

View Dr. Minshew's Powerpoint slides