Sheinkopf gets $496K grant for ASD work

PROVIDENCE – Stephen Sheinkopf, an assistant professor (research) of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, has been awarded a $496,000 grant for his work on autism-spectrum disorders.
The grant from the Simons Foundation is for Sheinkopf’s project “Biomarkers of Emotion Regulations, Social Response and Social Attention in ASD.”
Sheinkopf’s study will develop improved measures to document effects of very early interventions for those diagnosed with autism-spectrum disorders. Sheinkopf hopes to develop and validate short-term measurements that can be used to accelerate future treatment research.
“Our proposed biomarkers are measures of the way that individuals perceive, respond to and pay attention to the environment. Thus, improved functioning in these basic areas should support adaptation and learning and can be expected to precede long-term behavioral outcomes,” said Sheinkopf, who is also a clinician at the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk.

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