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Portrait of SFARI Investigator Daniel Geschwind.
Portrait of SFARI Investigator Daniel Geschwind.

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Daniel Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D.

SFARI Investigator

Affiliations
  • Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles
Website
geschwindlab.neurology.ucla.edu

Publications

Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis.

medRxiv, July 17, 2025

Zhang X., Grove J., Gu Y., Buus C.K., Nielsen L.K., Neufeld S.A.S., et al.

Molecular cascades and cell-type specific signatures in ASD revealed by single cell genomics.

Science, May 24, 2024

Wamsley B., Bicks L., Chang Y., Kawaguchi R., Quintero D., Margolis M., et al.

The contributions of rare inherited and polygenic risk to ASD in multiplex families.

Proc. Natl. Sci. Acad. U. S. A., August 1, 2023

Cirnigliaro M., Chang T.S., Arteaga A.S., Pérez-Cano L., Ruzzo E.K., Gordon A., et al.

Broad transcriptomic dysregulation occurs across the cerebral cortex in ASD.

Nature, November 2, 2022

M. Gandal, Haney J.R., Wamsley B., Yap C.X., Parhami S., Emani P.S., et al.

Projects

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Topology of cortical and thalamic gene expression changes in autism

Awarded 2022
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Enhancer-targeted correction of haploinsufficient autism risk genes

Awarded 2020
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Neural circuitry linking oxytocin deficiency and social impairment in autism

Awarded 2016
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Role of CASPR2 (CNTNAP2) in brain circuits

Awarded 2012

Featuring Daniel Geschwind

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SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration Gathers for Third Annual Meeting

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Oxytocin Regulates Changes in Social Brain Circuits Connectivity in a Cntnap2 Mouse Model of Autism

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Analysis of Autism BrainNet Postmortem Brain Tissue RFA: Awardees Announced

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2020 SFARI Collaboration on Sex Differences in Autism Awardees Announced

Events

Autism genetics: Searching for coherence

Lecture

November 28, 2017

5–6 p.m. ET

Speaker

Daniel Geschwind

Portrait of SFARI Investigator Daniel Geschwind.

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Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)

SFARI is the Simons Foundation’s autism research program, advancing the basic science of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders through funding, collaboration, and open science.

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