Educational Activities
Monthly Autism Seminar
NDRC Autism Seminar: Winter/Spring 2009 Schedule:
This month, we will be kicking off a new series of “Autism Seminars”, an informal lecture series for both researchers and clinicians interested in autism. The topic areas will run the gamut from early detection and treatments to neurobiology and genetics.
We will begin the seminar this month at 4:00pm on Tuesday, February 17th at the Autism Building in the second floor conference room (room 201).
NDRC Autism Seminar: Winter/Spring 2009 Schedule:
February 17: Dr. Jennifer Arnold, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology at UNC-CH, Understanding and producing pronouns: the effects of discourse status and processing load for young speakers with and without autism
March 17: Dr. Rebecca Knickmeyer, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry at UNC-CH, Sexual Differentiation of the Brain: Implications for Understanding the Biased Sex Ratio in Autism.
April 21: Dr. Luc Lecavalier, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University. PDDs and psychopathology: when taxonomy intersects with data.
May 19: Dr. Gabriel Dichter, Assistant Professor, UNC Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Core Faculty, Duke-UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center. fMRI of Anticipatory Affect in Autism: Money versus Circumscribed Interests.
Directions to Autism Building:
From campus or Hwy 54, get on 15-501 South/Hwy 54 Bypass West (traveling towards Carrboro).
Take the MERRITT MILL ROAD exit (just past Laurel Ridge Apartments),
Take a LEFT at the top of the ramp onto Merritt Mill Road,
Take a LEFT onto Smith Level Road at the stoplight at the bottom of the hill,
Go past Frank Porter Graham Elementary School (it will be on your left) and up a hill,
Soon after you go through a stoplight at the top of a hill, turn RIGHT onto Rock Haven Road (just past the Villages apartments),
Take a LEFT onto Renee Lynne Court; the building is on the RIGHT at 100 Renee Lynne Court.
(You may park in the gravel lot across from the building).