Research Information

Field of Expertise (Mental Health or Addictions)

• Mental Health

Mental Illness / Substance

• • Autism spectrum disorders,
  • Developmental disorders

Area of Research

• Biological mechanisms,
• Disability,
• Epidemiology,
• Genetics,
• Knowledge translation,
• Neuropsychiatry/Neuropsychology,
• Risk factors

Target Group

• Children,
• Vulnerable populations,
• Youth

CIHR Research Theme

• Biomedical

Keywords

• Anticipatory care,
• Early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders,
• Endophenotypes,
• Gene therapy,
• Genetic testing,
• Identification of autism susceptibility genes,
• Identification of phenotypic subgroups for autism spectrum disorders,
• Idiopathic intellectual disability,
• Improving the health of children with intellectual disabilities by early identification of genetic causes,
• Somatic and behavioral phenotype patterning