Skip to main content

Spectrum: Autism Research News

Webinar: Laurent Mottron on the need for radical change in autism research

 /  31 August 2021
The Presenter
Presenter
Laurent Mottron
Professor, University of Montreal

Laurent Mottron is professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal in Canada.

On 31 August 2021, Laurent Mottron, professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal in Canada, discussed his June 2021 commentary in Autism Research on why we need “a radical change in our autism research strategy.” Because autism diagnosis is based on “vague criteria,” he says, studies currently use participants who may share only a “trivial resemblance” to one another, which may lead to inaccurate results. Experienced clinicians should choose research participants who are “more representative of the ‘prototype’ of autism,” Mottron says.

Press Policy
The Spectrum Webinar Series aims to facilitate the free exchange of ideas among autism researchers, including discussion of published and unpublished research, hypotheses and results. Members of the press may report information presented during a Spectrum webinar only if that material has already been published elsewhere or they have first obtained express written consent from the presenter.

About Webinars
Presentations by leading experts that showcase new findings, useful techniques and emerging topics in autism research. We invite questions before and during the presentations in the Comments section.
TAGS:   autism