Collaborators
UCSF Center for ASD and NDDs (STAR)
Dedicated to understanding, treating, and promoting the well-being of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs).
UCSF Biomagnetic Imaging Laboratory (BIL)
Focused on improving non-invasive brain imaging methods to learn how the brain contributes to human behaviors.
Modality AI
Provides a conversational artificial intelligence system to be used in clinical research.
UCSF Speech Neuroscience Laboratory
Uses imaging to look at how the brain controls the muscles in the body that produce speech.
UCSF Epilepsy Center
Aims to understand and treat the genetic, developmental, and cognitive factors associated with epilepsy.
Multimodal Metabolic Brain Imaging Lab (Li Lab)
Develops methods for obtaining metabolic information from the brain to characterize behavior during disease and treatment.
Somer Bishop, PhD
Dr. Bishop is a Professor in UCSF Psychiatry and the Weill Institute for Neurosciences. She is a clinical psychologist specializing in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of autism spectrum disorders. Her work focuses on how ASD symptoms present across ages and abilities, and on distinguishing ASD from other neurodevelopmental conditions across the lifespan.
James McCracken, MD
Dr. McCracken is Professor-in-Residence in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a consulting psychiatrist for CAPP. He specializes in the safe and effective use of medications for child psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD, autism, OCD, and tic disorders.
Andrew Krystal, MD, PhD
Dr. Krystal is the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Distinguished Professor in Psychiatry and Neurology, Vice-Chair for Research in Psychiatry, and Director of the Dolby Family Center for Mood Disorders, the UCSF Interventional Psychiatry Program, and the TMS & Neuromodulation Clinic.
TN² Lab
The Translational Neuropsychiatry Through Neuromodulation (TN²) Lab investigates the neurobiology of substance use disorders and uses neuromodulation tools such as Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (LIFU), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), and Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) to treat addiction and related neuropsychiatric disorders.
Elliott Sherr, MD, PhD
Dr. Sherr is the founder and Principal Investigator of the Brain Development Research Program and a child neurologist focused on the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and epilepsy.
Danilo Bernardo, MD
Dr. Bernardo is a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist in the UCSF Department of Neurology. His clinical interests include early childhood-onset epilepsy, drug-resistant epilepsy, and surgical treatments for drug-resistant epilepsy.
Alex Fay, MD, PhD
Dr. Fay is a pediatric neurologist with special training in neuromuscular diseases, including muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, and myasthenia gravis.
Mercedes Paredes, MD, PhD
The Paredes Lab studies the cellular and molecular basis of perinatal human brain development to understand the architecture that underlies the unique functions of the human brain.
Chang Lab
The Chang Lab’s central goal is to provide a mechanistic account of speech behavior in typical speakers and those with language disorders, informing safer mapping methods to preserve language during brain surgery.
Noelle L'Etoile, PhD
The L'Etoile Lab investigates how neurons perceive and transmit information in response to novel and persistent environmental cues.