Research in Autism
Many groups throughout the University of Oxford and the Oxford area.
David A. Menassa
Investigating the balance between excitation and inhibition in the autism brain using stereology in post mortem samples and magnetoencephalography (MEG) in recruited autism spectrum disorder individuals.
Dr Alex Popescu
The nosology of autism spectrum disorders; longitudinal qualitative research in autism; cinematic, media, and digital art interventions in young persons with autism; trans-cultural aspects of autism.
Dr Anne Stewart
Research of patient and carer's experience of ASD
Dr Diane Newbury
Genetic contributions to risk of neurodevelopmental disorders with a focus upon language impairment
Dr Esther Becker
Molecular mechanisms underlying neuron development and autism
Dr Gaia Scerif
Young children with neurodevelopmental disorders of known genetic origin, overlap with autistic spectrum and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Dr Matthew Broome
Investigating the relationship between autism and schizophrenia, adult mental health outcomes in children with ASD, the prodromal phase of psychosis and the formation of delusions, affective instability and philosophy and psychiatry, neuroimaging.
Dr Steven Chance
Our studies of disease examine the neuroanatomy of Autism, Alzheimer's and Schizophrenia using post-mortem human brain material. We are interested in the relationship between brain structure and function - particularly language and social cognition.
Mathura Ravishankar
I am working on a project titled "An Excitiation/Inhibition Study of the Autistic Brain Characterized by Magnetoencephalography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging"
Professor Angela Vincent
Maternal immunity in neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly autism
Professor Dorothy Bishop
Neurodevelopmental disorders, especially those affecting language and communication
Professor Kia Nobre
Director of the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity
Professor Margaret Esiri
Brain Bank for Autism