Cambridge Family Study of Autism

The Cambridge Family Study of Autism, funded by the Medical Research Council, is a project based in the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.

The project will run for two years until 2012, and will use magnetic resonance imaging (a safe form of imaging that does not use any X-rays) to investigate the cause of the social impairments that occur in people with autism.

The study is looking for volunteers meeting the following criteria:

• Families including two young people aged between 12 and 18 old, where one child has no Autism Spectrum Condition and the other has been diagnosed with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome.
• Control Participants aged between 12 and 18 years old with no Autism Spectrum Condition and no relatives in their immediate family with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome.

Further details are available in this document.  For more information, contact Rosemary Holt, a Research Assistant at the Autism Research Centre on 01233 746136 or at rh465@cam.ac.uk