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Stay tuned for details on our 4th annual Huddle Up for Autism, when CAR and the Philadelphia Eagles join together once again to bring families living with autism a day of fun, education, and awareness at Lincoln Financial Field.
Visit CAR's blog, "Driven", for details on last years event.
Vanessa Troiani
Vanessa is a PhD Candidate in Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, working under the mentorship of Robert Schuiltz, PhD. Her studies are designed to evaluate the integrity of the subcortical visual system in 14- to 18-year-old children diagnosed with autism. Her research method includes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in combination with continuous flash suppression (CFS).
Prior to her graduate studies at Penn, Vanessa obtained her bachelor's degree from University of Michigan and completed her honor's thesis with Jeffrey Hutsler, PhD, using histological and MRI techniques to study microanatomical structure and cortical organization in autism spectrum disorders. Following her time at Michigan, she spent four years working in the Department of Neurology at University of Pennsylvania, using fMRI and behavioral measures to study learning and memory in college students, healthy older adults, and patients with neurodegenerative disease, in the lab of Murray Grossman, M.D.
Sample of Significant Publications
Chevallier, C., Kohls, G., Troiani, V., Brodkin, E.S., Schultz, R.T. (in press). The Social Motivation Theory of Autism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.