UNC-Chapel Hill scientists led by Mark Zylka, PhD, found measurable levels of a biomarker for azoxystrobin in pregnant women and young kids, and investigated the fungicide’s ability to pass from mothers to embryos in utero in mice and during lactation. … Read more

Research led by Mark Shen, PhD, Heather Hazlett, PhD, and Joseph Piven, MD, from UNC-Chapel Hill is the first to demonstrate overgrowth of the amygdala in the first year of life, before babies show most of the behavioral symptoms that … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill alum Kelley Altman Greer ’92 has personally and professionally witnessed the impact of autism on individuals and families. As a school psychologist and counselor in the Atlanta area for 20-plus years, and throughout her career in both public … Read more

From UNC Department of Allied Health Sciences | Office of Research and Scholarship (https://www.med.unc.edu/ahs/research/clare-harrop-receives-5-year-nih-award-to-study-sex-specific-trajectories-in-autism/) October 25, 2021 Clare Harrop, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences, has received a 5-year, $3.28 million R01 award from the NIH … Read more

As fathers to children with autism, Mike Dempsey and Jamiel Owens agree that every family in their situation faces unique difficulties in their journey. They also agree that there is one rock-solid truth for every dad who cares for a … Read more

Researchers work to find new and more accessible ways to detect and treat autism earlier. Two researchers in the UNC Department of Psychiatry are testing a new approach that may predict the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, in … Read more