About the speaker:
Dr. Aarti Nair is a licensed and board-certified neuropsychologist with over 15 years of experience working in the field. She specializes in assessment and consultation of neurodevelopmental disabilities across the lifespan. She currently holds a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Psychology at Loma Linda University, with a focus on translational research studies in youth with autism and psychosis. She is specifically interested in applying multimodal neuroimaging techniques (functional and structural MRI, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy) to examine changes in neural architecture affected by targeted interventions in these populations.
Dr. Nair is originally from Mumbai, India and moved to California in 2010 after a few years training on the east coast. LA is now home to her and she spends her free time exploring the many restaurants in the city, checking out all the concert venues LA has to offer, and travelling whenever she can.
Emerging Research on Autism Rates and Covid
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