Sensory and emotional sensitivity in autism: From neuroscience to narrative

Join us for our next Duke Center for Autism seminar! Our speaker will be Greg Siegle, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Translational Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and Director of the Program in Cognitive Affective Neuroscience (PICAN) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Siegle will present a neuroscience-based framework for understanding reactions to emotional and sensory stimuli in autism that can seem very strong or almost absent, and how the same individuals may move from one to the other type of reactivity. To support this framework he will work to integrate individuals' neuroimaging data and their narratives, which autistic participants have said they want to have heard and understood by others. He will relate these data to outcomes in a neuroimaging clinical trial of technologies to address dissociation. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED - please register in advance at the link provided.