{"id":114,"date":"2016-04-19T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/?p=114"},"modified":"2016-06-24T16:45:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T16:45:23","slug":"collaborators-visit-mount-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/collaborators-visit-mount-sinai\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborators Visit Mount Sinai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_115\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2016\/06\/dc38ed88-7c04-4cde-a2e3-bc4e3afa6ee8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115\" class=\"wp-image-115 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2016\/06\/dc38ed88-7c04-4cde-a2e3-bc4e3afa6ee8-300x158.jpeg\" alt=\"dc38ed88-7c04-4cde-a2e3-bc4e3afa6ee8\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R: Paige Siper, PhD (Chief Psychologist of the Seaver Autism Center), Anna-Carin S\u00e4ll-Grahnat, Karin Dellenvall, Joseph Buxbaum, PhD, Christina Hultman, PhD, Birgitta Ohlander, Bozenna Iliadou, Ann-Britt Holmgren, Gun Karlsson, and Sven Sandin, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday the Seaver Autism Center hosted a visit for\u00a0nurses in Sweden who work on the Population-based Autism Genetics and Environment Study (PAGES), funded by the National Institutes of Health.\u00a0Led by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/icahn.mssm.edu\/research\/seaver\/about\/directors\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph D. Buxbaum, PhD<\/a>, Director\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/icahn.mssm.edu\/research\/seaver\" target=\"_blank\">Seaver Autism Center<\/a>, this study is a collaboration between the\u00a0Seaver Autism Center at the Icahn School of\u00a0Medicine at Mount Sinai, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Carnegie Mellon University, and\u00a0the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden). The study\u00a0uses a population-based epidemiological sample with detailed demographic and environmental information to assess the role of inherited and\u00a0<em>de novo<\/em>, or genetic, variants in autism. The researchers also evaluate rare standing variation in autism, while integrating key environmental variables.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this study, hundreds of samples are collected every year by this group of talented nurses from the Karolinska Institutet, led by Christina Hultman, PhD.\u00a0During the visit at Mount Sinai, the\u00a0group participated in meetings to discuss psychiatric\u00a0genetics with a focus on autism,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountsinai.org\/patient-care\/service-areas\/psychiatry\/areas-of-care\/obsessive-compulsive-disorder\" target=\"_blank\">Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and related\u00a0disorders<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/icahn.mssm.edu\/research\/seaver\/research\/preclinical\" target=\"_blank\">preclinical<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/icahn.mssm.edu\/research\/seaver\/research\/clinical\" target=\"_blank\">clinical research<\/a>programs at the Seaver Autism Center. The group from the Karolinska Institutet and Seaver researchers alike\u00a0enjoyed the opportunity to meet and discuss their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Seaver Autism Center hosted a visit for\u00a0nurses in Sweden who work on the Population-based Autism Genetics and Environment Study (PAGES), funded by the National Institutes of Health.\u00a0Led by\u00a0Joseph D. Buxbaum, PhD, Director\u00a0of the\u00a0Seaver Autism Center, this study is a collaboration between the\u00a0Seaver Autism Center at the Icahn School of\u00a0Medicine at Mount Sinai, University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/buxbaum-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}