In Worcester, Massachusetts on August 13 - Dr. Martha Herbert on the Whole Body Approach to Autism

[Guest guest]

The Autism Resource Center of Central Massachusetts Announces a Talk and

Question & Answer Discussion for Parents, Families, and the Public:

" UNDERSTANDING AUTISM and How Research Can Help:

An Overview of a Whole-Body Approach to Autism "

SPEAKER: Martha Herbert, M.D., Ph.D.

Pediatric Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical

School and Director of the TRANSCEND Research Program

Thursday, August 13, 2009

7:00pm-8:30pm Talk by Dr. Herbert

8:30pm-9:00pm Question & Answer Discussion

Summit Academy

15 bury Drive

Worcester, MA

This talk will address:

A whole-body approach to autism

Applying a whole-body approach to treatment and research

Linking brain, body and behavior to other autism features such as:

* Seizures

* Sensory Problems

* Sleep Problems

* GI and Immune Issues

* Studying a whole-body approach to autism development starting from

infancy

Question & Answer Discussion with TRANSCEND Investigators

Dr. Martha Herbert is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical

School, a Pediatric Neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in

Boston, a member of the MGH Center for Morphometric Analysis, and an

affiliate of the Harvard-MIT-MGH os Center for Biomedical Imaging. She

is director of the TRANSCEND Research Program (Treatment Research and

Neuroscience Evaluation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders) in Lexington.

Special thanks to Summit Academy for providing space for this event.

This talk is free and open to the public, so please invite others that

may also be interested. RSVP is requested but not required.

To RSVP (requested but not required), for more information or to join our

mailing list please email us at WeTranscend@....

TRANSCEND Research Program

http://www.transcendresearch.org <http://www.transcendresearch.org/>

www.transcendresearch.org <http://www.transcendresearch.org/>