Autism and Brain Aging Lab

Learn more about our research below!
https://youtu.be/W5AYDLoxIkg

Understanding the aging brain with Blair Braden, PhD

Learn a little more about our research and our partnership with Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center (SARRC) ! https://youtu.be/bv2VJHxA3ng

Meet the Researchers: Aging & Autism ft. Blair Braden, PhD B. Blair Braden received her doctorate in behavioral neuroscience - psychology from ASU in 2012. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Barrow Neurolog...

Dr. Braden will be speaking at the Autism Society of Greater Phoenix Global Autism Conference from 9/11/20 - 9/12/20. This virtual and interactive conference will have live and recorded sessions with over 25 speakers of leading edge topics who will share their knowledge through this virtual autism conference:
https://whova.com/web/asogp_202009/

The Autism and Brain Aging Lab at Arizona State University is looking for adults with autism to participate in a paid research study on mindfulness techniques.

Visit https://cutt.ly/autismappstudy or email: [email protected] to learn more

Learn more about our app-based mindfulness study for adults with autism!

Visit https://cutt.ly/autismappstudy or email: [email protected]

Students competing in Arizona State University’s Devils Invent hackathons are tasked with formulating ideas for technology-based solutions to major societal problems. In the most recent competition, student teams focused on developing devices and systems to help communities reduce the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://asunow.asu.edu/20200707-quest-invention-data-driven-ways-cope-covid-19?utm_campaign=ASU_ASU+Now+7-8-20&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ASU%20Now&utm_term=ASU&utm_content=%20Devils+Invent+quote

Quest for invention: Data-driven ways to cope with COVID-19 Devils Invent gives ASU students opportunities to learn and apply skills needed to solve the world’s biggest problems — including a particular pandemic.

Free Online Family Orientation If you are a parent of a newly diagnosed child; have recently relocated to Arizona; or you are a family making life transitions consider joining SARRC for an online Family Orientation. Family Orientation is delivered by a member of our family services team and provides information and support to fam...

From our community partners, Raising Special Kids:

It's Tip Tuesday and we have a great tip to share from the Arizona Department of Education about the Summer Food Service Program!

The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) provides free and healthy breakfast, lunch, snack and supper to youth in Arizona all summer long. Anyone 18 years of age and younger is welcome to receive a meal from a participating summer feeding site.

Find summer feeding sites near you by visiting the AZ Health Zone Site Finder or texting FOOD or COMIDA to 877-877.

https://www.azhealthzone.org/summerfood/

Check our Summer Food Service Program web page for more details!

https://www.azed.gov/hns/sfsp/

Consider supporting ASU's First People's Resource Drive for Navajo, Hualapai, Havasupai and White Mountain Apache tribes affected by COVID-19: https://mailchi.mp/3c986b9251de/1stpeopleresourcedrive?fbclid=IwAR0ikGw3hH41blzUsFiNZXfu0Uva5viNt16fE51DZ97JrnnKZk2b66mRjyA

COVID19 Resource Drive

ASU experts, including Dr. Braden, and ASU students discuss how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting members of the disabled community.

https://asunow.asu.edu/20200612-sun-devil-life-living-disability-during-pandemic?utm_campaign=ASU_ASU+Now+6-15-20&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ASU%20Now&utm_term=ASU&utm_content=%20Read+more_Disability

Living with a disability during a pandemic Arizona State University sociologists agree: The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a number of inequalities in our society related to race, gender, class, legal status and age. However, conspicuously missing from much of the media coverage on these issues are the stories of how the crisis is affecting t...

In Dr. Thorp’s editorial, he urges the scientific community to recognize the biases that have perpetuated racial discrimination in research, academia, and science:

“Someone I turn to for wisdom and leadership on this issue is Dr. Valerie Sheares Ashby, the Dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University. As an African-American female, she claims that she is leading today only because a few people decided to let her into this exclusive club—something she says hardly ever happens. 'How much creativity are we leaving on the table,' she asks, 'because science repeatedly fails to come to terms with our narrowly defined processes and our limited ways of determining success.' "

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/06/08/science.abd1896

Time to look in the mirror This is a grave time in American history. Both the public health and economic problems of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were foreseeable. But even more predictable is the racial tension gripping the United States in the wake of the brutal killing of George Floyd. It is easy to think that the p...

Research suggests adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may use executive functions to compensate for social difficulties. Given age-related declines in executive functioning and the executive brain network in aging for neurotypical populations, there is concern that older adults with ASD may experience further declines in social functioning as they age. Our findings indicate ASD-related difficulties in social cognition (such as perception, attention, memory, and action-planning) may get worse with age in men with ASD and is related to executive functioning.
https://docs.google.com/a/asu.edu/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=YXN1LmVkdXxicmFkZW4tYWJhLWxhYnxneDoyMjg4MzRjMzZhZDM5MmQ2

Walsh_RASD_2019.pdf

Starting now until 1:00 PM PT, please join the Disability Resource Center at ASU in discussing implementing accommodations after high school:

https://asu.zoom.us/j/92361792999

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Quarterly newsletter now available!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16FS6O5Id6yYQ2wPfoTHpayrhiKpSz-yT/view?usp=sharing

2020 Q2 Newsletter.pdf

Congratulations to our lab team member, Melissa Walsh, for being awarded the Outstanding Speech and Hearing PhD Student in Research Award! Way to go Melissa!

Over the course of the last 30 years, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses have increased. This means that a large number of people are aging with ASD and currently, little is known about this topic. In a recent study (https://docs.google.com/a/asu.edu/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=YXN1LmVkdXxicmFkZW4tYWJhLWxhYnxneDozYzU1YzE5ZTQzOGIxNjg3), our lab discovered that adults with ASD demonstrated exacerbated age-related cortical thinning, compared to neurotypical adults. More research is needed to determine whether these differences imply unique behavioral variations in older adults with ASD.

Braden and Riecken 2019.pdf

The Autism Brain Aging Laboratory at Arizona State University is among the first to study age-related changes in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Our research studies help to develop interventions targeted for adults to promote independent living and improved health. We invite you to like and follow our page to learn more about our lab.

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AUTISM and BRAIN AGING LAB The Autism Brain Aging Laboratory is among the first to study age-related changes in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) through neuropsychological evaluations and multi-modal neuroimaging. We aim to translate cognitive and brain findings into meaningful interventions for adults with ASD.

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