Linking Powerful Pathways to Harness the Remarkable Potential of the Brain of the Child on the Autism Spectrum
In this panel you’ll learn about the powerful potential of the brain of the child with autism to heal itself. Bridging their their dynamic, cutting-edge approaches, the speakers will dance between biomedical ways the brain can repair itself and practical, neuroscience-based tools that awaken the brain and elevate it to self-organize and move from the seemingly impossible to the transformational. Experience through brief transformational movement lessons your own brain, body and mind change.
Martha R. Herbert, MD, PhD, PhD, MD
Martha Herbert is a pediatric neurologist and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT-HST-Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. Her TRANSCEND Research Program uses advanced brain imaging techniques and biomarkers to look at the relationship of metabolism, perfusion and brain function, and at brain change with treatment. Her whole-baby infant project studies how brain and physiology problems co-emerge starting prenatally and in early infancy.
Anat Baniel
Anat Baniel, clinical psychologist, dancer and close associate of the late Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, is a leader in the field of movement/brain relationship. She developed a cutting-edge approach supported by recent brain plasticity research. Anat and the practitioners she trained are known for their remarkable outcomes with children with special needs. She is currently involved in a pilot study on TBI with Dr. Merzenich and is the author of best selling Move Into Life and Kids Beyond Limits.
