The Simons Center for the Social Brain supports collaborative, focused projects undertaken by multiple laboratories to explore in depth specific aspects or types of autism. These Targeted Projects are structured to encourage collaboration among researchers in order to quickly and flexibly address pressing questions in autism research.
Current Projects
Marmoset Circuits: Developing knowledge and tools to facilitate therapeutic development for ASD
Guoping Feng
Alan Jasanoff
Meningeal immunity: a novel strategy for treating autism spectrum disorders
Gloria Choi
Jun Huh
Myriam Heiman
Mriganka Sur
Mitigating sensory overload with closed-loop stimulation
Earl Miller
Robert Desimone
Charles Nelson
Cognitive, neural, and computational foundations of conversation
Evelina Fedorenko
Edward Gibson
Caroline Robertson
Nancy Kanwisher
Rebecca Saxe
Roger Levy
Joshua Tenenbaum
Previous Projects
Predictive Processes in Autistic and Neuro-typical Individuals. A behavioral, neural and developmental investigation
Pawan Sinha
John Gabrieli
Jesse Snedeker
Circuit mechanisms of ASD-relevant behaviors in marmosets
Robert Desimone
Ann M. Graybiel
Mriganka Sur
Alan Jasanoff
Role of the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus in thalamocortical coordination, cognitive processing, and sleep in ASD
Matthew Wilson
Dara Manoach
Guoping Feng
Michael Halassa
The nature of the pragmatic impairment in autism spectrum disorders
Evelina Fedorenko
Rebecca Saxe
Edward Gibson
Laura Schulz
Joshua Tenenbaum
Role of the 16p11.2 CNV in autism: genetic, cognitive and synaptic/circuit analyses
Mark Daly
Nancy Kanwisher
Mark Bear
Mriganka Sur
Multi-level analysis of the Shank3 mutation in autism: translating genetic studies into pathophysiological mechanisms and therapeutic targets
Guoping Feng
J. Troy Littleton
Rudolf Jaenisch