Ruth Carper, PhD
San Diego State University
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About the Speaker: Dr. Ruth Carper is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology from San Diego State University, and is also Co-Director of the Brain Development Imaging Laboratories. She has been studying the brain bases of autism, from childhood to aging, for more than 20 years. She has two primary areas of research examining the long-term phenomenology of autism spectrum disorders: (1) Using multiple imaging techniques (structural, diffusion, spectroscopy MRI) to study the neurobiology of autism, how it changes during development, and how these changes help to explain differences in cognition. (2) Examining how middle-aged and older adults with autism fare as they age with respect to cognition, neurobiology and overall function. For more than 8 years she has led an NIH-funded longitudinal study examining these changes in 40 to 65 year-olds with autism. In addition, Dr. Carper collaborates extensively with other faculty at BDIL to combine cognitive, structural and functional MRI measures to better understand the development of sensory systems in autism and associations between sleep problems and neurodevelopment in ASD.
For Further Information, Contact: Clark Kellogg at kellogg@waisman.wisc.edu
The seminar series is funded by the John D. Wiley Conference Center Fund, the Friends of the Waisman Center and Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) grant P50HD105353.
