Speaker: Andy Alexander

Title: Functional, anatomical and diffusion tensor imaging in Autism

Dr. Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Medical Physics and Psychiatry, and Director of MR Physics Research at the W.M. Keck for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior. His area of expertise is quantitative and functional methods for neuroimaging applications. The talk will be an overview of imaging projects in subjects with Autism using fMRI (processing of facial expression), structural brain imaging of the corpus callosum, and diffusion tensor imaging (corpus callosum) and some recent work in white matter tractography. This work was performed at both the University of Wisconsin and University of Utah.