{"id":2633,"date":"2019-03-06T17:38:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T01:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10124\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2019-03-16T23:56:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T06:56:01","slug":"neurodiversity-and-autism-neurobiology-at-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/stanford","title":{"rendered":"Neurodiversity and Autism Science at Stanford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"caret-color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">UPDATE:<\/span><\/strong> Dr. Fung&#8217;s March 16 talk, titled &#8220;<strong>Strengths-Based Model of Neurodiversity and the Stanford Neurodiversity Project<\/strong>&#8221; was ambitious, detailed, and well-received by a full house at AASCEND&#8217;s general meeting. Click <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Stanford-Neurodiversity-Project-slides-to-distribute-to-AASCEND-031619.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"caret-color: #000000;\"> to see slides from his PowerPoint presentation.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (It&#8217;s a 29Mb\u00a0pdf and may take a minute to load). Thank you, Dr. Fung!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On March 16\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">S<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">C<\/span><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">E<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">N<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">D<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0hosts an appearance by Dr. Lawrence Fung, \u00a0a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University. Dr. Fung is a researcher and clinician specializing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and the father of a neurodiverse teenager with ASD.\u00a0Dr. Fung is the director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/neurodiversity.html\">Stanford Neurodiversity Project<\/a>, which strives to uncover the strengths of neurodiverse individuals and utilize their talents to increase innovation and productivity of the society as a whole. Dr. Fung directs the Adult Neurodevelopment Clinic, which specializes in assessing and treating adults with ASD. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2634\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LawrenceFung.jpg\" alt=\"Lawrence Fung\" width=\"250\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Fung serves as the principal investigator of studies investigating the neurobiology of ASD by state-of-the-art molecular neuroimaging and bioanalytical technologies. He is the recipient of several awards including the Pilot Research Award from the American Academy of Child &amp; Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Investigator Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and Outstanding Resident Award from the NIMH.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to attend this fascinating presentation, and bring your insights and questions.<\/p>\n<p>As always, <span style=\"color: #339966;\">attendees on the spectrum will offer their experience and perspectives\u00a0throughout the program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Who: <\/b>Adults on the autism spectrum, families, mentors and professionals all welcome. For more information, please contact: info@aascend.org<br \/><strong>When:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sat March 16, 10am \u2013 noon<\/strong><\/span><br \/><strong>Where: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Arc of SF<\/span> 1500 Howard St. @ 11th St. SF, CA 94103 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?q=1500+Howard+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=37.269174,-119.306607&amp;sspn=11.81214,16.633301&amp;oq=1500+Howard+st&amp;hnear=1500+Howard+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94103&amp;t=m&amp;z=16\">map<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parking is usually available in the garage at 255 12th Street, with a reasonable flat rate for Saturdays. There is also metered street parking for $2.25\/hr.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Dr. Fung&#8217;s March 16 talk, titled &#8220;Strengths-Based Model of Neurodiversity and the Stanford Neurodiversity Project&#8221; was ambitious, detailed, and well-received by a full house at AASCEND&#8217;s general meeting. Click here to see slides from his PowerPoint presentation. (It&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/stanford\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}