Detailed description is We are a research team devoted to studying Autism Spectrum Disorders through behavioral and MRI research techniques. Our autism research is a collaboration between researchers and clinicians at Georgetown University and the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National Medical Center. We're currently studying social and nonsocial attention and how these cognitive processes relate to behavioral characteristics such as anxiety and impulsivity.. . We are also interested in the behavioral characteristics and neural basis of adaptive mechanisms during the life span. Adaptive mechanisms promote goal-directed behaviors that allow us to adjust effectively to our environment. Studies are aimed at two types of adaptive mechanisms - (1) Processes that require little effort such as learning from environmental regularities without intention or conscious awareness (termed implicit memory and learning); and (2) Processes that are effortful such as voluntary control over thoughts and actions (termed executive control).. . Further, we are interested in how these mechanisms differ across individuals due to inherited genetic alleles that are associated with functional differences in neurotransmitters (e.g., DAT1, COMT) and / or development disorders (e.g., ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders-ASD).. . Ongoing Projects in the Lab:. -Behavioral and fMRI studies of working memory, inhibitory control, and attention switching in healthy children and children diagnosed with ADHD. -Behavioral and fMRI studies of social and non-social attention regulation in high-functioning autism. -Behavioral and fMRI studies of implicit learning in healthy children, adults, and children with ADHD and ASD.
Established in the recent years Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Georgetown University in district-of-columbia, district-of-columbia in united-states.
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