Her clinical experience and imaging expertise serve as a translational bridge on many of CART's projects. She often does brain imaging on autism patients before and after particular treatments. She works with geneticist Daniel Geschwind, CART's director, to compare genetic data from individuals with known autism risk factors with fMRI images of their brains. In addition, she and her colleague Mirella Dapretto are doing brain scans to monitor the effects of a behavioral-intervention study carried out by UCLA's Connie Kasari.