Dr. Harrop was recently interviewed by Spectrum News about the gender bias in ASD research studies and what our lab is trying to do about it! The article was also published on The Atlantic. The full article can be accessed here.

March 24, 2019 Graduate student, Aaron Dallman, presented a poster entitled “Affective expression, regulation and executive functioning in Autism: The role of cognitive flexibility and inhibition” at the Biennial Society for Research in Child Development Conference in Baltimore. Aaron’s poster utilized data from Project BIDD and used path analysis to test the relationships between executive … Read more

March 2019 In February, Dr. Harrop and her family welcomed their new daughter to the world. Baby L. has already taken part in two studies and will no doubt become an assessment practice guinea pig like her older sister, H!  

March 2019 Dr. Harrop and graduate student, Aaron Dallman, together with Dr. Jessica Cohen (Psychology, UNC) have been awarded a NC TraCS Pilot 2k award to study executive functioning and behavioral inflexibility in Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. ADHD is a common comorbidity in ASD and this study will allow us to examine profiles of cognitive … Read more