autism

Case Western Reserve University's International Center for Autism Research and Education (ICARE) is leading a five-hour “Global Dialogue Café” on autism on April 23. Throughout the Autism Virtual Symposium, leading researchers and clinicians from Case Western Reserve, with colleagues in autism rese...

Monica Orlando, a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of English, will give a lecture titled "Double Voicing and Personhood in Collaborative Life Writing about Autism: The Transformative Narrative of Carly’s Voice," on Friday, April 18, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Clark Hall, room 206. Among the mo...

For the last five years, students at Eastlake Middle School, about 20 miles northeast of Cleveland, spend half a Saturday in April on their feet. All 12 hours. From noon to midnight. Even eating meals while standing on the gym floor. And it’s all to raise awareness and research dollars for autism,...

Earlier this year, Case Western Reserve University researchers reported a scientific explanation for why children with autism withdraw into their own worlds: At rest, their brains actually generate significantly more information than those of children without autism. This study was just the latest ...

The Autism Research Seminar Series will present “Translational Research in Autism: From Neuroimaging Studies to Clinical Trials,” Tuesday, April 1, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Autism (2801 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.). Antonio Hardan, director of the Autism and Developmental ...

Possible explanation for “withdrawal into self,” a characteristic of the disorder New research from Case Western Reserve University and University of Toronto neuroscientists finds that the brains of children with autism generate more information at rest—a 42 percent increase on average. The study of...

The Autism Research Seminar Series will continue next week with a talk by Nenad Sestan, professor of neurobiology at Yale University, titled “Neocortical Projection Systems in Autism and Intellectual Disability.” David Katz, professor of neurosciences at Case Western Reserve, will host the event on...

Visit the Jolly Scholar on Tuesday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. for Puzzle Palooza—an evening of competitive games and activities themed around autism awareness. Enter as a team of four to six and compete against other teams in various games to win prizes. All proceeds will go to Autism Speaks. Donated priz...

The next Autism Research Series talk will be led by Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, chair of the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, titled “Studying the Pathophysiology of Autism Using Mouse and iPSC Models.” David Katz, professor of neurosciences, will host the event, which will take place on Tues...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to demonstrate their support for scientists and families by taking part in the Cleveland’s Walk Now for Autism Speaks event, this Sunday, Sept 22, at 8 a.m. at Voinovich Park. Participants will walk two miles to raise funds to inc...