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Ilanit Gordon, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral fellow at the
Yale Child Study Center. She received her doctoral degree in Experimental Psychology at
Bar-Ilan University under the mentorship of Dr. Ruth Feldman. Ilanit's main interest is the
neuro-hormone Oxytocin and its involvement in human interaction and bonding. Her dissertation
project examined Oxytocin and its role in mothers' and fathers' bonding to their firstborn child.
In the Child Neuroscience Laboratory, Ilanit is working in collaboration with Dr. Kevin Pelphrey to
investigate Oxytocin's interplay with brain function in typically and a-typically developing children.
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Roger Jou, M.D. is a postdoctoral fellow in the Albert J.
Solnit Integrated Training Program at the Yale Child Study Center. Dr. Jou began his career in
autism research as a medical student at the University of Pittsburgh where he used structural MRI
to study differences brain morphology. As a resident in general psychiatry at Yale, he began working
at the Child Study Center where he developed an interest in diffusion tensor imaging and functional
MRI which ultimately led to his matriculation into Yale's Investigative Medicine PhD Program. Thesis
co-advisors include Dr. Volkmar and James Duncan, Ph.D. (Diagnostic Radiology). Dr. Jou's research
involves characterization of abnormal neural connectivity in autism using different MRI modalities.
His research efforts will also be conducted under the guidance of Dr. Pelphrey and Gregory McCarthy,
Ph.D. (Psychology). In addition to research, Dr. Jou regularly sees children through the Center's
Developmental Disabilities Clinic.
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Alexander Westphal, M.D. received his degree from
Brown Medical School, and is an Albert J. Solnit fellow in the integrated Child and Adult Psychiatry
Program at the Yale Child Study Center and a Ph.D. student in the Investigative Medicine program at
the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His research focus is the Autism Spectrum Disorders,
in particular using neuroimaging to understand late regression in autism, or Childhood Disintegrative
Disorder. His research is supervised by Fred Volkmar, M.D. and Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D.
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Daniel Yung-Jui Yang, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral researcher at the Yale Child Study Center. He received his degree in social psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he examined the links among autistic traits, social acting, and peer relationships. He is a recipient of the Hilibrand Autism Fellowship in Adolescence and Adulthood. His main research interests are computer-mediated intervention and MRI-assisted individualized treatment for individuals with autism. Supervised by Dr. Kevin Pelphrey, he is currently applying functional MRI to study the neural basis of the social skills that link to peer relationships in adults with autism. Click here to visit his personal website.
