12 Apr 2016

Autism Research - Dr Javier Javier Virues-Ortega

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 12 April 2016

There's no known cause ... and no cure. Autism remains one of the most complex disorders for researchers to tackle. But what if we could see inside the brains of sufferers to see if therapies are actually reshaping them? That's what a New Zealand team plans to do. It's a world-first study combining the latest behavioural science with cutting-edge functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology.

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