Autism and Brain Aging Lab

Learn more about our research below!

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) !

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.

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:

COVID19 Resource Drive

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

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.' "

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...