The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) met on Monday. I was unable to listen to much of it, although I did get to hear most of the presentation by Joseph Piven. His talk was about the Infant Brain Imaging Study:
Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS) Network
Joseph Piven, M.D.
Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology
Director, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities
Director, Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
There are some very interesting results coming out on onset of brain overgrowth and timing of onset of autistic symptoms.
There was also, as you might imagine from the title of this post, some reference to environmental causation research. As in, promoting the notion that the IACC hasn’t and doesn’t support environmental causation research. This is far from the truth. Strangely, one doesn’t find news on the research going into environmental causation on the blogs which focus upon environmental causation. One can find it here, though. For example:
US plan for autism research: focus on environmental causation re-emphasized
Left Brain Right Brain 
Hi Sullivan –
The infant brain imaging study is a pretty clever idea. Finally!
Do you know if there is an audio archive of the meeting? Maybe those become available online later on? I’d love to listen to the Piven thing.
Thanks.
– pD
pD–
They put video up on this site
http://iacc.hhs.gov/events/
The video wasn’t working for me during the last meeting. I hope they captured video.