Collaborators

Dr. Botteron is a part of the NeuroImaging Laboratories (NIL). She investigates structural brain differences in children and adolescents with affective disorders, attention deficit disorder and autism. The NIL is involved in a longitudinal study to characterize very early brain development with MRI in infants at risk for developing autism and infants with Fragile X and Down Syndrome, and the lab is seeking to better characterize the progress of normal structural development and associated cognitive & behavioral development, by MRI, in healthy control populations.

Dr. Eggebrecht’s lab (The Neurotechnology and Human Imaging Lab) is a diverse and interdisciplinary team that focuses on developing novel tools that extend mapping and investigating human brain function beyond current limitations. He is interested in three principal areas: developing wearable and portable High Density Diffuse Optical Tomography (HD-DOT) technology, applying HD-DOT to understanding childhood development, and developing new tools to understand how brain connectomes relate to behavior, exposure, and outcome.

Dr. Lang directs the Neurorehabilitation Research Laboratory where efforts are targeted toward the development of effective and efficient, individualized rehabilitation for people with neurological injuries, particularly those with stroke.  A key tool for our lab is the use of wearable sensors (accelerometers) to quantify human movement in daily life.  In partnership with Dr. Marrus, we are exploiting this tool in infants and toddlers to evaluate how careful quantification of motor traits may be predictive of future development of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Jeff received a Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and joined the Washington University Movement Science Program in 2019 under his advisor Dr. Catherine Lang. He is interested in the objective measurement of real-life human movement in children in order to improve clinical diagnosis and interventions.

Zoë graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014 with a major in Biopsychology, Cognition & Neuroscience. She is currently a graduate student in the labs of Drs. Desirée White, John Pruett, and John Constantino, building statistical models in R and Python to elucidate the relationship between brain and behavior in populations with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Dr. Elie Abdelnour graduated from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon) medical school in 2016. He worked at the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development (Durham, NC) for 2 years, looking at biomarkers for early detection of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He is currently a third-year Psychiatry Resident at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO) and will be pursuing a Child and Adolescent Fellowship. He is interested in exploring the relationship between early autism traits and language development.