As part of a five-year, $7.5 million award, UNC researchers led by Joseph Piven, MD, will follow up on innovative imaging studies to create interventions to help children with autism. The National Institutes of Health has awarded nine research grants … Read more

The five-year NSF project led by UNC researcher Spencer Smith will develop new imaging systems and technology to explore the brain like never before. The brain is so incredibly important to human health and yet so little is known about … Read more

This first-of-its-kind study used MRIs to image the brains of infants, and then researchers used brain measurements and a computer algorithm to accurately predict autism before symptoms set in. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in infants with older siblings with … Read more