B4-A: Translational Neuroscience in ASD 2 of 2: Creating a brain-based, heuristic, clinical model to improve psychiatric assessment/triage in autism

January 18, 2025 3:30PM 4:45PM Salon 2

In spite of powerful technological advances furthering understanding of the brain in our generation, the manner of psychiatric clinical/assessment in autism remains unchanged from its initial description a century ago.  Effectively translating knowledge gained from laboratory-based brain studies in autism to improving clinical care in autism, is the need, the promise, and the challenge, that is translational neuroscience (TN).  This second of two TN lectures, will focus on the clinical assessment/triage component of the autism TN dialectic.  No neuroscience background necessary.  

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe how ASD psychiatric assessment today (DSM-5, 2013) remains essentially unchanged from its first description (Grunya E. Sukhareva,1925) with the same extreme functional limitations.
2. Describe a brain-based, heuristic ASD psychiatric assessment model that rests on the heuristic ASD brain model presented in the first lecture.
3. Describe how this model can complement and improve clinical decision-making past that of the current syndromal-based DSM-5 heuristic model.l.
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