Primary Recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$1,987,576.00

Award Date

9/08/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

A consistently replicated biological phenotype in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a larger head circumference (HC) in the first years of life. We hypothesize that increased brain size in ASD is attributable to altered dynamics of cell proliferation and