Lisa Yankowitz

Now also seems like a good time to announce here that I’m taking a clinical grad student(s) this year. If you’re interested in how reward processing develops in the young brain, or in genetic syndromes, come talk to me! I’ll be at the @ABCTAutism happy hour tonight.

🚨My brainchild of the last 1.5yrs is now available to read in @jaacap! Let’s break ‘reward processing’ down into its building blocks, and study them systematically in infants & toddlers. tinyurl.com/th3cp7pb 1/5 🧵

@drcarolw @BostonChildrens @C_C_Clements @winko_an @kineticjohnson So incredibly well-deserved! Congrats!

So grateful to the amazing postdocs I have the privilege of working with and learning from @BostonChildrens! @C_C_Clements @winko_an @Lisa_Yankowitz @kineticjohnson

@VPetrulla Thanks so much for your work on this! It truly would not have come together without you!

New pub related to my thesis, written by the incredible @Lisa_Yankowitz Working on this project set the stage for my current work! molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Excited that our meta-analysis on gross motor & social skills in autism is out in Psychological Bulletin! We found evidence for robust differences in gross motor behavior in autism that were correlated with social behavior: doi.apa.org/doi/10.1037/bu…

@VPetrulla @Infantstudies Congrats! Won't be there, but can't wait to hear about your findings!

I was granted a travel award from @Infantstudies to present my thesis research on canonical babbling and intersensory matching as predictors of early expressive vocabulary at the 2022 Congress! This will be my first time attending and I absolutely can't wait to share my work!

New study: neurotypical children/teens adjusted how talkative they were to match the person they were talking with; autistic children/teens didn't adjust their talkativeness based on their partner. Work from @CARautism onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/au…

@VPetrulla You are too kind, thank you!

New paper from one of my colleagues at CAR! Her presentation of this paper during her dissertation defense was so interesting! This is definitely worth a read!

*density does not mean neuronal density. This study uses MRI, which cannot directly measure neuronal density.

One of my dissertation papers is out! Regional grey matter volume - but not density* - is increased in autism in 6-25 year-olds. Could help explain some prior inconsistent structural findings. @CARautism ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/…

Exciting webinar coming up Tuesday 6/22 at 10 AM MT - learn about authentic, independent communication and how to be a more helpful communication partner from a talented SLP! secure.touchnet.net/C20369_ustores…

@SSMeera2 Thanks!

@Lisa_Yankowitz Congratulations, @Lisa_Yankowitz - I enjoyed listening to your talk. I particularly like the way you have explained the ML part.

Check out my 8-minute talk on how baby sounds can help predict later autism diagnosis (with an explainer on machine learning), starting at 2:33 in this video. You can vote for my talk at: bit.ly/2NLoGzn. Would love to hear any thoughts!

@samantha_plate Thanks! A real screenshot from my Netflix account :)

@Lisa_Yankowitz I love this! So cool to see the ML results! And I appreciate the Gilmore girls netflix analogy ☺️

Teaser for a short talk I recorded on some of my dissertation research (on early detection of autism. Sadly there are no nanorobots in my talk).

Our citation imbalance code now does both race and gender and the estimates are probabilistic. It now measures your reference list's balance across 64 combinations of race and gender: Asian/Black/Hispanic/white, man/woman, first/last author. github.com/mb3152/balance…

Autistic youth synchronize their facial expressions with conversational partners less than typically developing peers. Cool computer vision work from @CARautism. @Spectrum coverage: spectrumnews.org/news/facial-ex…. Original paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32666690/

Evidence that a cognitive profile of stronger nonverbal than verbal intelligence is NOT diagnostically useful for autism. Great paper from @caitclem00 and @CARautism! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Excited to see my paper on brain volume in autism come out in Molecular Autism! rdcu.be/b474o