{"id":85,"date":"2017-08-15T13:26:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T17:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuroimaging\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=85"},"modified":"2024-07-29T15:17:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T19:17:25","slug":"helen-tager-flusberg","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuroimaging\/profile\/helen-tager-flusberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Tager-Flusberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Professor Emeritus of Psychological &amp; Brain Sciences, BU College of Arts and Sciences<\/h5>\n<h4>Research Interests<\/h4>\n<p><span>The overall aims of the research conducted in our center address questions about the phenotypic characteristics of the language, communication, and associated social-cognitive deficits in autism (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders. We have three ongoing lines of research:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span>investigating the early behavioral and brain developmental trajectories in infants at risk for autism (in collaboration with Children\u2019s Hospital Boston;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>comparing autism and specific language impairment in behavioral and fMRI studies of children and adolescents (in collaboration with MIT); and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>our Autism Center Excellence studies on minimally verbal children with autism (in collaboration with colleagues at BU, MGH, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Northeastern).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Lab Webpage:<span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Autism Research Excellence<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13808,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuroimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuroimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuroimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuroimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuroimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuroimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/85\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuroimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}