Advances in treatment research: summary of the NIH/HHS videocast
In honor of Autism Awareness month, the National Institutes of
Health in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human
Services held an hour-long lecture and live videocast with two
seasoned autism researchers. The talk series was titled
“Advances in Treatment Research” and addressed the current state
of treatment research in autism including promising new areas
and the barriers to getting to effective treatments faster.
Susan Swedo, M.D., a board-certified pediatrician and the Chief
of the Pediatrics & Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch at the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), spoke about
empirically-supported treatment options in autism, including
behavioral and medical treatments. She noted that methods of
behavioral intervention have been the most studied. A recent
review published in Pediatrics highlighted the positive effects
demonstrated in randomized controlled trials of early
intervention, including the UCLA Lovass mod