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Helen Tager-Flusberg

Boston University

Helen Tager-Flusberg is director of the Center for Autism Research Excellence at Boston University. Her research aims to untangle autism and language impairments using behavioral and brain-imagining studies. She was also a columnist for Spectrum.

 

From this contributor

Spectrum

Why no one needs a diagnosis of ‘social communication disorder’

By Helen Tager-Flusberg
17 April 2018 | 1 min read
Spectrum from The Transmitter.
Spectrum

Should scientists study mothers of children with autism?

By Helen Tager-Flusberg
12 April 2016 | 1 min read
Spectrum from The Transmitter.
Spectrum Microphone

‘Frozen’ offers glimpse of autism in girls

By Helen Tager-Flusberg
15 September 2015 | 4 min read
Spectrum from The Transmitter.
Spectrum

Time for some soul-searching in science

By Helen Tager-Flusberg
1 September 2015 | 1 min read
Spectrum from The Transmitter.
Spectrum

Better behavioral tests may save trials of autism treatments

By Helen Tager-Flusberg
21 April 2015 | 1 min read

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13 October 2026 | 4 min read
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The neural code at 100

In two 1926 articles, Edgar Douglas Adrian revealed that neurons communicate through trains of spikes.

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12 October 2026 | 8 min read