7th Annual International Meeting For Autism Research ... - Confex

Program
Saturday 17 th May – PM
12.15 – 1.15 pm Lunch (Chablis) + Presentation by Joaquin Fuentes on behalf of Autism Europe and IACAPAP
“Autism Spectrum Disorders: policy and practice in Europe” (Cremant)
1.15 – 3.15 pm Invited Educational Symposium
Oral Presentations Oral Presentations
“Sensory Integration Disorders”
Brain Imaging 1 Sibling Studies
Organizer: Susan Hyman
(Mancy)
(Bourgogne)
(Avize-Morangis)
3.15 – 3.45 pm Coffee (Chablis)
3.45 – 5.45 pm Oral Presentations
Brain Imaging 2
(Avize-Morangis)
Oral Presentations
Repetitive Behaviour
(Mancy)
Roundtable
“Correlating Animal Behavioral Models to
Human ASD”
Moderator: Jacqueline Crawley
(Bourgogne)
Poster Presentations
(1.00 – 5.30 pm)
Language Posters
Neuropathology Posters
Cognition Posters 3
Cell/Animal Model Posters
Play Posters
(Champagne Terr/Bordeaux)
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM - Chablis
147 Autism Spectrum Disorders: policy and practice in Europe
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM - Cremant
Speaker: J. FuentesChild & Adolescent Psychiatry Unit
Presentation by Joaquin Fuentes on behalf of Autism Europe
and IACAPAP
Invited Educational Symposia
148 Sensory Processing: The Interface of Research and Clinical
Practice
1:15 PM - 3:15 PM - Avize-Morangis
Moderator: G. T. BaranekUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Organizer: S. HymanUniversity of Rochester
Speakers: G. T. Baranek 1 L. Bennetto 2 C. Cascio 3 (1)University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (2)University of Rochester, (3)
Vanderbilt University
Sensory differences are commonly reported in people
with autism. Often they are among the most problematic
symptoms. This symposium will examine the phenomenon
of sensory symptomatology, the research methodology
used to characterize and explain the observed behaviors,
and the treatments that are being used in the community. A
translational approach will be emphasized to inform both basic
researchers and clinicians on future avenues of study.
1:15 148.1
Introductory Remarks.
1:25 148.2
Characterizing Sensory Processing Features in Autism: Scope
of the Problem and Clinical Measurement. G. T. Baranek*,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1:50 148.3
Interventions for Sensory Processing Problems in Autism. M. L.
J. Miller*, S. A. Schoen and B. Brett-Green, Sensory Processing
Disorder Foundation
2:15 148.4
Neural Mechanisms for Sensory Features in Autism. C. Cascio*,
Vanderbilt University
2:40 148.5
Neuropsychological Perspectives on Sensory Processing in
Autism. L. Bennetto*, University of Rochester
Coffee 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM - Chablis
Roundtable
149 Strategies to Assay Communication Deficits in Animal
Models of Autism: Roundtable Discussion
3:45 PM - 5:45 PM - Bourgogne
Moderator: J. CrawleyNational Institute of Mental Health
Speakers: A. Bailey 1 J. Bakker 2 R. J. Blanchard 3 P. Brennan 4 S.
Brudzynski 5 N. Clayton 6 J. Crawley 7 U. Frith 8 M. L. Scattoni 9 S.
E. Swedo 10 (1)University of Oxford, (2)University of Liège, (3)
University of Hawaii, (4)University of Bristol, (5)Brock University,
(6)University of Cambridge, (7)National Institute of Mental
Health, (8)University College London, (9)Istituto Superiore di
Sanita, (10)National Institutes of Health - National Institute of
Mental Health
The second diagnostic criterion for autism, qualitative
impairments and delays in communication, is conceptually
the most difficult to model in animals. While we have many
tests for social and repetitive behaviors in model organisms,
little is known in most non-primate species about signaling
mechanisms that represent true communication in a social
setting. Particularly for mice, a species useful for testing
hypotheses about candidate gene mutations in autism, new
approaches are needed to detect the communicative value of
their olfactory signals, ultrasonic vocalizations, and the possible
presence of Theory of Mind mentalization and empathy. Our
Roundtable session is designed to generate ideas for optimal
assays to evaluate communication in animal models of autism.
Behavioral neuroscientists expert in mouse, rat, and bird
communication will present photographs, videos, and audioclips
of their tests for olfactory, auditory, visual, gustatory, and tactile
signaling between individuals. Clinical experts will critique
the relevance of each task to the qualitative and quantitative
communication deficits seen in autism and autism spectrum
disorders. Back-and-forth discussion between the basic and
clinical roundtable participants, along with input from members
of the audience, will focus on identifying tasks with optimal
face validity to the second diagnostic symptom of autism.
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