Elizabeth Aylward
Center for Integrative Brain Research at Seattle Children’s Research Institute and the University of Washington
Elizabeth Aylward is the associate director of the Center for Integrative Brain Research at Seattle Children’s Research Institute and an affiliate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Cornell University, followed by two post-doctoral fellowships at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, one in developmental disabilities and one in the dementias of aging. Post-doctoral work included an introduction to neuroimaging research focusing on structural MRI measures of specific brain regions in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Aylward has continued this work for the past 25 years, and her studies have used both structural and functional MRI to better understand a variety of disorders, including autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, HIV dementia, Huntington’s disease, and Down syndrome, as well as normal development and aging.