Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Dr. Greg Siegle, from the University of Pittsburgh, will present a neuroscience-based framework for understanding reactions to emotional and sensory stimuli in autism that can seem very strong or almost absent, and how the same individuals may vary from one to the other type of reactivity. To support this framework, Dr. Siegle will work to integrate individuals’ neuroimaging data and their narratives, which autistic participants have said they want to have heard and understood by others. Dr. Siegle will relate these data to outcomes in a neuroimaging clinical trial of technologies to address dissociation.
Greg Siegle
University of Pittsburgh
Professor
Dr. Siegle directs the Program in Cognitive Affective Neuroscience (PICAN) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he is a Professor of Psychiatry and Translational Sciences. His research examines neural mechanisms of emotional and cognitive information processing in psychiatric conditions, how this information can be used to understand individual differences and to guide intervention selection and development for use in the real world. Dr. Siegle has over 200 publications and has been continuously funded by NIH and foundation awards for over 20 years.