Podcasts

Listen to the latest podcast and radio interviews with Duke Center for Autism faculty and staff.

We have some episodes on a Spotify playlist where available.

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Podcast Episode: How AI is Aiding Earlier Diagnosis of Autism

This enlightening Raise the Line episode with host Lindsey Smith is loaded with the latest understandings about Autism Spectrum Disorder, including advancements in early diagnosis aided by artificial intelligence that include a smartphone app parents can use at home. Dr. Geraldine Dawson, founding director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development also shares advancements in early therapeutic interventions and explains what has contributed to a near tripling of diagnoses over the past two decades.

Autism Center’s Sam Brandsen Speaks to Media about Emotional DNC Moment

Sam Brandsen, PhD, a Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development staff member, was interviewed recently on Charlotte's Spectrum News 1 as well as WPTF Radio in Raleigh about his experience as an autistic person and the father of an autistic child.

He discusses an emotional moment at the Democratic National Convention that put a spotlight vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's son expressing support for his father.

JAMA Pediatrics Podcast: Intervention Amount and Outcomes for Young Autistic Children

A meta-analysis of interventions for autism finds that increasing intervention is not associated with greater improvement in development for young children with autism. JAMA Pediatrics Editor in Chief Dimitri Christakis, MD, and JAMA Pediatrics Associate Editor Alison Galbraith, MD, discuss autism treatments with Geraldine Dawson, PhD, Founding Director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development.

APA Podcast - Speaking of Psychology: How early detection could change autism diagnosis and intervention, with Geraldine Dawson, PhD

About 1 in 36 children in the U.S. has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Geraldine Dawson, PhD, of Duke University, discusses why the number of diagnoses has risen so steeply in recent years, why it’s more common in boys than girls, and how research using artificial intelligence and brain biomarkers is making it possible to detect autism risk at younger ages than before—even in infancy. Listen to the podcast on YouTube here