Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road


2007-11-22 14:30: The MRC Autism Imaging Multicentre Study (AIMS):  An Update (Michael Lombardo (ARC))

2007-12-07 00:00: Three post-mortem studies of autism: new findings - TALK POSTPONED (Dr Andrew Dean (Cambridge Brain Bank))

2008-02-15 13:00: Reading our own emotions: How good are we? (Jorrit de Kieviet and Bhismadev Chakrabarti (ARC))

2008-02-29 13:00: The magnocellular theory of autism (Dr. Kate Plaisted, Laboratory for Research into Autism, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge)

2008-05-09 13:00: Event Related Potential (ERP) studies of autism (Dr. Howard Ring (Centre for Learning Disabilities and ARC, Cambridge))

2008-06-06 13:00: To what extent are autistic traits and intellectual impairment genetically related? Insights from a large population based twin study (Dr. Rosa Hoekstra, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge)

2008-06-20 13:00: Pragmatic me, pragmatic you: the development of informativeness from a speaker's and a comprehender's perspective (Dr. Napoleon Katsos, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, Cambridge)

2008-07-18 13:00: An fMRI study of prior emotion processing on subsequent cognitive performance: relevance for psychiatric disorders (Dr. Nicholas Walsh, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2008-07-29 13:00: Supra-regional brain systems in autism spectrum.  Perspectives from neuroimaging (Grainne McAlonan, University of Hong Kong)

2008-09-19 13:00: Design of robotic toys and game scenarios for behavioral training of autistic children. (Dr. Emilia I. Barakova, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)

2008-10-17 13:00: A funny turn in the brain: fMRI on jokes (Tristan Bekinschtein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2008-10-20 10:00: The Enhanced Perceptual Functioning Model of Autism (Prof. Laurent Mottron, University of Montreal, Canada)

2008-11-07 13:00: Exploring the genetic and environmental causes of behaviours characteristic of autistic spectrum conditions (Dr. Angelica Ronald, Birkbeck College, London)

2008-11-14 13:00: Multimodal hypersensitivity in individuals with autism spectrum conditions (Teresa Tavassoli, Autism Research Centre)

2008-12-05 13:00: The Imprinted Brain Theory of Autism (Dr. Christopher Badcock, Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics)

2009-01-23 13:00: Genetics of Autism (Patricia Lewin, MD, IntegraGen)

2009-02-06 12:00: Journal Club (Michael Lombardo, ARC)

2009-02-27 12:00: Hierarchical modularity in human fMRI brain networks (Dr. David Meunier, Brain Mapping Unit)

2009-04-17 12:30: Emotion and Memory: Explorations of the Amygdala. (Prof. Joseph LeDoux)

2009-05-13 10:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Tony Attwood, Griffiths University, Brisbane, Australia)

2009-05-22 13:00: Asperger syndrome and the interbrain (Prof. Digby Tantam, University of Sheffield and University of Cambridge)

2009-06-12 12:00: Reciprocal imprinting produces sex differences in autistic spectrum traits (Gill Ragsdale)

2009-10-23 13:00: How can we benefit from autism theories? (Dr. Meng Chuan Lai, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry)

2009-10-30 13:00: Autism: what has genetics taught us? (Professor Dan Geschwind,UCLA School of Medicine)

2009-12-09 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Joaquin Fuentes, MD,Head of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Unit of Policlinica Gipuzkoa (San Sebastian))

2010-02-26 13:00: Diminished adaptation in autism: A working hypothesis (Dr. Liz Pellicano (Institute of Education, London))

2010-03-12 13:00: Normal clinical visual function in individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions (Dr Keziah Latham, Department of Vision & Hearing Sciences and Vision & Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University)

2010-04-30 13:00:  Is it possible to extent the E-S theory for explaining the individual differences in cognition in general population? : Evidence from children and university students (Prof Dr Akio Wakabayashi, Department of Psychology,  Chiba University)

2010-05-28 13:00: "Second life demonstration" (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-06-11 13:00: Predicting progress in PECS use by children with autism (Dr Greg Pasco)

2010-06-18 13:00: The specificity of face detection in autism (Owen Churches)

2010-07-02 13:00: "White matter abnormalities underlying autism spectrum conditions in women" (Amber Ruigrok)

2010-10-21 13:00: The effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on imitation ability; implications for individuals with Autism. (Anna Moffat, Flinders University)

2010-11-12 13:00: "Theory of Mind and Peer Relationships in late childhood and adolescence" (Dr Claire Hughes, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-19 13:00: Computing and emotions (Professor Robinson, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2011-01-14 12:00: Getting to know you: The acquisition of new face representations is impaired in autism (Dr Owen Churches, Department of Psychiatry)

2011-03-18 12:00: The evolution and development of social cognition: lessons from corvids and children (	 Professor N S Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-19 13:00: "Embodied semantics in autism spectrum conditions" ( Friedemann Pulvermuller , MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2011-06-03 12:00: You talkin' to me? Processing self-relevant ostensive cues across modalities (Raliza Stoyanova , Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge)

2011-07-01 13:00: The latent structure of the autism phenotype (Rachel Grove)

2011-10-07 12:00: The ‘social’ brain in ASC: differences in the processing of eye gaze and at rest (Dr. Elisabeth von den Hagen, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2012-02-03 13:00: Autitouch: Supporting autism diagnosis with multitouch (Freena Eijffinger, CEO Autitouch)

2012-02-17 13:00: What's special about the female autistic brain? (Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Postdoctoral Research ARC)

2012-03-15 13:00: A search for a latent genetic variable: Important or out of date? (Professor James Leckman)

2012-05-04 13:00: IMFAR Practice Talks Pt 1 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-05-11 12:45: IMFAR Practice Talks Pt 2 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-06-06 10:30: It's the thought that counts: neural mechanisms of Theory of Mind in typical development and in Autism Spectrum Disorders (Dr Rebecca Saxe, Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT)

2012-06-11 12:00: When maths and mindreading meet: sex-dependent empathizing/systemizing interactions, and insights into ASC development (Jeffrey Valla)

2012-06-29 13:00: Autism and Human Cognitive Diversity, from Physiology to Psychology to Pedagogy (Dr Matthew Belmonte)

2012-07-18 13:00: Are auditory sensory behaviours associated with ASD a consequence of atypical low-level auditory processing? (Dr José Alcántara)

2012-11-09 13:00: Clinical characteristics of young adult males with autism spectrum disorders sentenced to prison for violent or sexual offences (Dr Björn Hofvander, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-16 13:00: Embodied Morality (Dr Simone Schnall, Director of the Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory)

2012-11-30 14:00: Autism in DSM-5 (and beyond) (Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge)

2012-12-03 13:00: How do individuals with autism reason about the physical world? (Dr Sara Baker, Faculty of Education)

2013-02-01 12:00: Bio-behavioral Synchrony and the Cross-Generation Transmission of Social Adaptation and Psychopathology (Dr. Ruth Feldman, Bar Ilan University)

2013-02-12 15:00: The Odd Pair of Autism and Transsexualism (Dr. Annelou de Vries, Department of Paediatrics, VUmc)

2013-03-01 13:00: The visual system in autism: what binocular rivalry can tell us (Jan Freyberg, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre)

2013-03-15 13:00: Dopaminergic Modulation of Reward Learning in Social Contexts (Dr Christoph Eisenegger, Department of Psychology)

2013-04-22 13:00: Overlooked and Undiagnosed: The female expression of the autistic phenotype (Alexandra Head, PhD Candidate at Deakin University, Australia)

2013-05-09 13:00: Brain imaging findings in BPD (Dr Robert Dudas, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-24 13:00: Epac2, from protein to in vivo function: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders (Dr Deepak Srivastava, Department of Neuroscience and Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London)

2013-06-07 13:00: Talk has been cancelled! (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-06-20 13:00: Brain imaging and the nosology of "childhood psychoses" (Prof John Suckling, Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry)

2013-06-24 14:00: Atypical visual integration in autism (Caroline Robertson, Autism Research Centre)

2013-10-04 13:00: Human computer interaction in autism research (Dr Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Reader in Psychology, Heriot-Watt University)

2013-10-18 13:00: Does recurrent ASD risk depend on whether younger siblings were conceived or born before their elder siblings were diagnosed? (Prof. Michael Beenstock, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Visiting Fellow at Fitzwilliam College)

2013-11-01 13:00: Leo Kanner 70 years on - A History of Autism (Adam Feinstein)

2013-11-15 13:00: CANCELLED (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-11-29 13:00: The Role of Empathy in Musical Preferences (David Greenberg, PhD Student Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2014-01-24 13:00: Emotion Processing and Intervention in Autism Spectrum Conditions (Dr Sarah Cassidy, Research Coordinator, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge,)

2014-02-07 13:00: The Anatomy of Violence (Prof Adrian Raine, University of Pennsylvania Dept Psychology, Visiting Professor University of Cambridge)

2014-02-21 13:00: How do young brains mature? UCHANGE design, techniques and some early results (Prof John Suckling, Director of Research, BCNI)

2014-03-07 12:00: Shedding Light on the Newborn Brain (Dr Topun Austin, Consultant Neonatologist, Cambridge Centre for Perinatal Neuroscience)

2014-04-11 14:00: Increasing autism awareness and autism service provision in Ethiopia: the HEAT+ project (Dr Rosa Hoekstra & Dr Bethlehem Tekola, The Open University)

2014-05-23 13:00: Influence of facial expressions on attention to gaze in autism: Neural correlates and development (Dr Amandine Lassale, Autism Research Centre)

2014-06-06 13:00: Autism: what the genes tell us (Varun Warrier, MPhil Student at the ARC, University of Cambridge)

2014-06-13 16:30: Switching between affect and ratio: The basolateral amygdala (Dr David Terburg, Department of Psychology, Utrecht University )