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2021 Peking University Medical Autism International Forum - Social Behavior and Autism Live Information

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2021 Peking University Medical Autism International Forum - Social Behavior and Autism Live Information

Autism spectrum disorder (abbreviated as autism or autism) is a type of developmental neurological disorder characterized by social communication disorders, narrow interests and repetitive stereotypes, and perceptual abnormalities. Recently published epidemiological survey results show that the incidence of autism in school-age children in China is 0.7%, which is close to the global reported incidence. The high prevalence of autism, and its symptoms often accompany the patient throughout life, is one of the major problems affecting the health of the population.

The 2021 Peking University Medical Autism International Forum – Social Behavior and Autism will be held online from October 16 to 17, 2021. "Persistent deficits in social interaction and social interaction in multiple scenarios" are core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder. This conference will gather neuroscience, psychology and clinical medical experts engaged in the study of autism and social behavior, analyze the mechanism of social behavior from the molecular, circuit and behavioral levels, describe the social behavior characteristics of children with autism from multiple dimensions, and introduce cutting-edge methods for accurate diagnosis and treatment of autism. This conference hopes to collide with the spark of thinking through easy-to-understand explanations from experts from different fields, and provide new theories and new directions for analyzing the pathogenesis of autism and establishing practical diagnosis and treatment methods.

The forum is aimed at researchers in the field of generalized autism research, clinicians, parents of children with autism in need, and undergraduate and graduate students in biomedicine. Welcome all interested colleagues to actively participate in this event!

Speakers:

Topic Reports (in alphabetical order by last name)

David Amaral

Director of the MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis, AND Chair Professor

Peter Mundy

Chair Professor, School of Education, University of California, Davis

Zou Xiaobing

Professor, Director of the Center for Child Development and Behavior at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

Meeting Report (in alphabetical order by last name)

Sarah Dufek

Clinical Assistant Professor and Certified Behavioral Analyst at the MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis

Hu Xiaoyi

Director and Professor, Research Center for Autistic Children,Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University

Keith Kendrick

Professor, School of Life Sciences and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Li Jun

Associate Researcher, Institute of Mental Health, Peking University

Li Xue

Deputy Chief Physician and Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Peking University Sixth Hospital

Liu Jing

Director and Professor of Children's Mental Health Center, Peking University Sixth Hospital

Letitia Naigles

Professor, Department of Psychological Science, University of Connecticut, USA

Kevin Pelphery

Chair Professor, Institute of Brain Research, University of Virginia, USA

Wu Shengxi

Director and Professor of the Institute of Neuroscience, Air Force Military Medical University

Yang Li

Researcher, Institute of Mental Health, Peking University

Larry Young

Professor, Director of the Center for Translational Social Neuroscience at Emory University

Yu Lodi

Distinguished Researcher, School of Psychology, South China Normal University

Organizer: Autism Research Center, Peking University Health Science Center

Beijing Society of Neuroscience

Organizer: School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Co-organizers: IDG/McGovern Institute of Brain Science, Peking University

School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Peking University

Institute of Neuroscience, Peking University

Chinese Society of Neuroscience Children's Cognition

Chapter with brain dysfunction

Conference Organizing Committee:

Chair: Yu Xiang, Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Vice Chair: Yi Li, Research Fellow, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Peking University

Rong Zhang, Associate Professor, Institute of Neuroscience, Peking University

Secretary General: Gao Ya, Full-time Deputy Secretary-General of Beijing Neuroscience Society

Conference date: October 16-17, 2021

Conference Format: Broadcast through multiple online platforms, online participation is free.

Disclaimer: Without the written authorization of the organizer, it is not allowed to record or disseminate it privately in any form, and if it is found, it will be investigated for intellectual property legal liability.

2021 Peking University Medical Autism International Forum - Social Behavior and Autism Live Information

Report Title:

A Longitudinal Analysis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: the Ups and Downs

Longitudinal analysis of autism spectrum disorders: opportunities and challenges

Editor-in-Chief of Autism Research, official journal of the International Society for Autism Research

David Amaral is a Chair Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis. In 1998, he was appointed President of the Beneto Foundation and Founding Research Director of the MIND Institute. The MIND Institute is dedicated to the study of autism and other developmental neurological disorders. Professor Amaral organizes the Autism Phenome Project at the MIND Institute to identify the biomedical characteristics of children with different types of autism through a comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of children with autism. Most recently, he was appointed director of the Autism BrainNet. Professor Amaral, who served as President of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) in 2009 and 2010, has served as Editor-in-Chief of Autism Research, the official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, since April 2015, and was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine in the United States in 2019.

The Early Social Attention Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Early social attention symptoms of autism spectrum disorder

President of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) (2019-2021)

Peter Mundy is a Chair Professor at the University of California, Davis School of Education, Department of Psychiatry, and MIND Institute. President of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) from 2019 to 2021. For the past 40 years, Professor Mundy has devoted himself to studying the role of joint attention disorder in the nature, diagnosis, and treatment of autism. His research found that preschoolers with autism have impairments in joint attention in social communication and social cognitive phenotypes, suggesting that they have behavioral and neurodevelopmental underpinnings. His work has had a significant impact on the development of assessment tools such as the Diagnostic Observation Scale for Autism (ADOS), where terms such as joint attention come from Dr. Mundy's Early Social Communication Scale. His work has laid a solid foundation for the development of early intervention methods, such as JASPER (Joint Attention, Symbolic Games, Rules of Interaction) developed by Dr. Connie Kasari and collaborators at UCLA. In addition, Professor Mundy was the first to report relevant observations on the involvement of neural networks in joint attention development, providing a reference for neuroscience research on autism and typical child development. His 2016 book Autism and Joint Attention: Developmental, Neuroscience, and Clinical Underpinnings, and his 2018 review of Joint Attention and Social Cognitive Brain Systems in Typical Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders, summarized the previous 20 years of research on this topic as the first comprehensive analysis of cognition and neuroscience of joint attention in autism research and theory.

Autism Research at the Crossroad

Autism research at a crossroads

Director of the Center for Child Development and Behavior, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Chief Physician

Zou Xiaobing is the director of the Center for Child Development and Behavior of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, chief physician and doctoral supervisor. Pioneered the pediatrics major of developmental behavior in China. In the diagnosis and treatment of children's autism (autism), ADHD, intellectual disabilities and rare neurodevelopmental genetic diseases, he has a high theoretical level and academic attainments, and has a very rich clinical experience, and has a high reputation among the parents of the majority of children and the industry. He has long been committed to the research and development of a child autism diagnosis and treatment system in line with China's national conditions, and has successfully developed infant social questionnaires, children's autism screening scales, and children's autism diagnosis scales; successfully developed the first multimodal artificial intelligence diagnosis system for children's autism in China; proposed the theory of the mechanism of homeostasis imbalance in children for the first time, and proposed three principles of children's autism education; established a Chinese autism BSR intervention model; and built a complete autism diagnosis intervention system. In 2008, he won the Soong Ching Ling Pediatric Medicine Award.

The Early Start Denver Model (ESDM): A Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention Designed for Young Children with ASD

Early Intervention Denver Model (ESDM): A naturally developing behavioral intervention designed for young children with autism spectrum disorder

Sarah Dufek, Ph.D., is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences, and MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis, a licensed psychologist, and a certified behavioral analyst. Specializes in the assessment and treatment of patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) of all ages. Since 2000, she has been engaged in basic and clinical research in children, adolescents and adults with ASD and related developmental disorders. Dr. Dufek is a trainer on a variety of clinical interventions and assessment methods, including the Early Intervention Denver Model (ESDM), the Key Response pedagogy (CPRT), the Diagnostic Observation Scale for Autism – Second Edition (ADOS-2), and the Diagnostic Autism Interview Scale – Revised (ADI-R). At the MIND Institute, Dr. Dufek not only focuses on various research projects, but also provides clinical treatment at the Massie Family Clinic and trains and mentors trainees from different disciplines for the ESDM program.

Social Skills Training to Preschool Children with ASD

A study of social skills interventions in preschool autistic children

Professor and doctoral supervisor of the Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University, Director of the Research Center for Autistic Children in the Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University, Member of the Special Education Teaching Guidance Committee of the Basic Education Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral certified by the World Society for Applied Behavior Analysis and Verified Course Of Beijing Normal University Sequence Program Coordinator)。 He has accumulated nearly ten years of experience in clinical intervention in autistic children, published more than ten monographs, textbooks and translations on autism, including two monographs in foreign languages, more than 30 papers in SSCI journals, more than 20 CSSCI journals, presided over more than 10 national, provincial and ministerial projects, more than 10 social research donation funds, served as the associate editor of Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders journal, and the editorial board of many SSCI journals related to the education of children with autism. Reviewer.

Improved Symptoms in Children with Autism Following Intranasal Oxytocin or Vasopressin Treatment

Report Title: Improvement of Symptoms in Children with Autism After Nasal Spray with Oxytocin or Vasopressin

Keith Kendrick (Kong Zhewen)

Keith Kendrick, Professor, School of Life Sciences and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (2011-present), academic and technical leader of Sichuan Province, winner of China's "Government Friendship Award". After receiving his Ph.D. in Psychology from Durham University in 1979, he worked at Durham University, the Zoological Institute in London, the University of Cambridge and the Babaham Institute in Cambridge, where he was Director of Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience at the Babaham Institute. He has published nearly 300 high-quality academic papers in international journals, including 8 Nature and Science papers and 3 PNAS papers. The paper has been cited more than 20,000 times, 58 single papers have been cited more than 100 times, and the H index is 78, which has been selected into the list of "Elsevier China's Highly Cited Scholars" for seven consecutive years (2014 to date). Professor Kendrick studies how the human brain processes social and emotional information in China, exploring how the system is compromised in a variety of mental illnesses, particularly autism. Currently, he is conducting clinical research on the treatment of autism by modulating the oxytocin and vasopressin systems.

Dysfunction of Trio GEF1 Involves Autism-like Behaviors

The Trio GEF1 functional domain is involved in autism-like behavior

Jun Li is an associate researcher at the Institute of Mental Health at Peking University and a doctoral supervisor. In 2013, he received his Ph.D. in Psychiatry and Mental Health from Peking University. In 2016, he was selected as a young talent entrustment project of the China Association for Science and Technology. His main research interests are the screening and functional research of susceptible genes for mental diseases such as autism and schizophrenia, including: screening susceptibility genes for mental illness through case-control and genealogy-based genetic association studies; using genetically modified mice as animal models, using animal behavior, primary neuronal culture embryonic electrotransference, intra-brain virus injection, electrophysiology and optogenetics to explore the role of specific genes in neurodevelopment, maturation and plasticity. The biological basis of neural circuit development abnormalities in autism and schizophrenia is discussed at multiple levels such as population, animal, cell and molecule; corresponding intervention strategies are designed to find potential molecular targets and treatment methods for diseases.

Social Skills Training for School-age Children with High-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder

Social skills training for spectrum disorders of high-functioning autism in school age

Xue Li, Doctor of Pediatric Psychiatry, Is the Deputy Chief Physician and Associate Professor of the Department of Pediatrics, Peking University Sixth Hospital. He has been engaged in pediatric psychiatry for more than 10 years, and has rich experience in the diagnosis, assessment and social skills training of children's autism, and has obtained the scientific research trainer qualification of the Autism Diagnosis observation scale (ADOS-2). Vice Chairman and Deputy Secretary-General of the Applied Behavior Analysis Professional Committee of the China Rehabilitation Association for the Disabled, Deputy Secretary-General of the Psychological Therapy and Counseling Committee of the China Mental Health Association, Standing Committee Member of the Autism Professional Committee of the China Rehabilitation Association for the Disabled, Standing Committee Member of the Autism Rehabilitation Engineering and Auxiliary Technology Professional Committee of the China Rehabilitation Association for the Disabled, Member of the Youth Medicine Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and Director of the Beijing Autistic Children Rehabilitation Association.

Social Interaction Disorder in High-functioning ASD

Social communication disorders of high-functioning autism spectrum disorders

Liu Jing, graduated from Peking University Medical College, is currently the deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Peking University Sixth Hospital, the director of the Children's Mental Health Center, chief physician, professor, and doctoral supervisor. He has been engaged in the clinical, scientific research and teaching of child and adolescent psychiatry for more than 30 years, and has rich work experience. He is also the executive committee member of the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Related Disciplines, the vice chairman of the Asian Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Related Disciplines, the vice chairman of the Chinese Mental Health Association, the chairman of the Psychological Therapy and Psychological Counseling Committee of the Chinese Mental Health Association, the chairman of the Special Committee for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Neurodevelopmental Disorders of the Chinese Maternal and Child Health Association, and the deputy leader of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Group of the Psychiatry Branch of the Chinese Medical Association. He has published about 100 papers and participated in the preparation of the Ministry of Health's "Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment and Rehabilitation of Children's Autism" as one of the writing team leaders. As one of the editors-in-chief, he edited the second edition of the Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in China.

Exploring the Roles of Joint Attention in Language Development in ASD

Explore the role of joint attention in the development of the ASD language

Letitia Naigles is Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut, Director of the Department of Psychological Science Development and Cognitive Science Programs, and Founding Director of the University-Wide Alliance for Scientific Research and Recruitment in Child Development. After earning his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, he taught at Yale University for 10 years. She became a member of the Association of Psychological Sciences in 2009, was awarded the Excellence in Research In Research Award in Biology and Life Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences in 2017, and was awarded a Career Award by the American Association of University Professors Chapter of the University of Connecticut in 2019.

Dr. Naigles conducted language acquisition research on children learning a variety of languages, including English, French, Spanish, Chinese, and more. She studies when children show creativity in language use, especially innovations in language comprehension, and how they handle their language input when learning a particular language. For the past 19 years, she has been conducting an in-depth longitudinal survey of the language development of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which innovatively uses online observation methods to assess the language ability of this population. Her findings shed light on which aspects of autistic children's language are typically acquired and which are truly impaired, providing new treatment and intervention directions for therapists and families.

Developing Precision Medicine for Autism(s)

Develop precision medicine for autism

Kevin Pelphery is a Chair Professor at the University of Virginia Brain Institute and an expert in neuroscience and brain development. By understanding the causes of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders, his research team attempts to deliver precise treatment options to people in need at the right stage of development. Professor Pelphery is a principal investigator at the National Institutes of Health's Center of Autism Excellence, the Autism Neurogenetics Network, and has received the National Institutes of Health Scientist Career Development Award, the John Merck Scholar Award, the Microsoft Breakthrough Award, and the American Psychological Association's Boyd McKander Award.

How Homeostasis of Excitatory/Inhibitory Synapses in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Regulates Social Behavior

Mechanisms that excite/inhibit synaptic homeostasis in the anterior cingulate cortex to regulate social behavior

Wu Shengxi is the director of the Institute of Neuroscience of the Air Force Military Medical University, the director and professor of the Department of Neurobiology, the Jiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, and the leading scientific and technological talent of the National Ten Thousand Talents Program. Mainly engaged in the research of the mechanism and intervention strategy of mental illness such as autism, he has undertaken 12 key projects of the National Science and Technology Fund, the National Key Research and Development Program, and the major projects of the military. He has published more than 50 papers in Nat Neurosci, Nat Commun, J Clin Invest and other journals as a corresponding author. He is also the chairman of the Biology Committee of the Whole Army, a director of the Chinese Physiological Society, and a director of the Chinese Neuroscience Society.

Underlying Common Features and Therapeutic Implications for ASD and ADHD: Psycho-pathological Domain-based Precision Medicine

ASD and ADHD: Hidden Common Features and Their Therapeutic Implications—Precision Medicine Based on Psychopathology

Yang Li is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Mental Health, Peking University. He is currently the vice chairman of the International Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Alliance, a member of the Expert Committee of the Developmental Behavior Group of the Science Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the deputy director of the Children's Mental Health Center of the Sixth Hospital of Peking University, and a researcher of the North Brain Center. His research focuses on the etiology mechanism and precision medicine of neurodevelopmental disorders in children. Early use of pharmacogenetic methods to explore individualized treatments for ADHD. In recent years, multi-gene genetic research, cognitive genomics research, and the efficacy of executive function training have been systematically studied and promoted. At present, he focuses on cognitive neuroscience methods and genetic animal models, and deeply analyzes the pathogenesis and clinical translation. He has presided over/undertaken 5 national natural science foundation projects, and participated in more than 10 national, provincial and ministerial projects such as the National 973 Project and the Beijing Brain Science Program Project. He has published 140 research papers and more than 70 SCI papers, including many high-level papers such as Mol Psychiatry. Reviewer for important international journals such as the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Oxytocin and the Neural Circuitry of Social Relationships: Implications for Autism.

The neural circuits of oxytocin and social relations, and their inspiration for autism

Larry Young is Director of the Center for Translational Social Neuroscience at Emory University, Director of the Oxytocin Social Cognitive Conte Center, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Emory University, and Chair of the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatry at yerkes National Primate Research Center. Dr. Young has published more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, including Science, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Genetics, PNAS, and more. He is a former president of the International Society for Neuroscience, winner of gold brain, Frank Beach, Daniel H. Efron, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Young studies the neurobiological mechanisms of social relationships and empathy and translates them into methods for treating social deficits in mental illness. His research has identified the role of oxytocin in monogamous binding and comforting behavior in prairie voles and is exploring the effects of oxytocin on brain network communication in autistic patients. He also studies the brain oxytocin system in primates, including chimpanzees, rhesus macaques, and monogamous Titi monkeys. Dr. Young's book Chemistry Between Us: The Science of Love, Sex, and Attraction explores how brain chemistry affects our relationships with others in all its aspects.

Invisible Barrier: Aberrant Auditory and Speech Processing in Children with Autism

Invisible barriers: abnormal auditory and spoken information processing in children with autism

Yu Luodi, Distinguished Research Fellow, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Ph.D. in Speech, Language and Hearing Science, University of Minnesota, USA, her research uses behavioral and neurobehaviorological methods to examine the basic perceptual perception and speech information processing of autistic individuals, focusing on children with different language backgrounds. Her work also involves autism public knowledge advocacy and community integration. Dr. Yu's research is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the results have been published in international academic journals such as Autism and the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Dr. Yu Lodi currently serves as the China Representative of the Early Career Committee of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR).

Organizer

Yu Xiang

Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Director, Solitosis Research Center, Beijing University School of Medicine

President of the General Assembly

Yu Xiang is a professor at the School of Life Sciences of Peking University, a researcher at the IDG/McGovern Institute of Brain Sciences, a researcher at the Peking University-Tsinghua Joint Center for Life Sciences, and a director of the Autism Research Center of Peking University School of Medicine. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University, UK, received his Ph.D. from the MRC Molecular Biology Laboratory in Cambridge, UK, engaged in postdoctoral research at Stanford University School of Medicine, and was a researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2005 to 2019. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that regulate the formation and plasticity of neural circuits in the cerebral cortex, as well as the pathogenesis of autism. The long-term goal is to analyze the key molecular and circuit nodes of genes and environmental factors that regulate brain development and plasticity, and apply them to the diagnosis and treatment of developmental nervous system diseases such as autism. Corresponding author research papers have been published in international academic journals such as Cell, Nature Neuroscience, and Neuron. He has won the honors of National Outstanding Youth, Leading Talents of Scientific and Technological Innovation of The Ten Thousand Talents Program, Young Women Scientists of China Award, North Brain Scholar, and Shanghai Leading Talents. He is currently on the editorial boards of Journal of Cell Biology, eLife, Autism Research and other journals.

Yi Li

Researcher, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Peking University

Vice-President of the General Assembly

Yi Li is a researcher at the School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences at Peking University, a researcher at the McGovern Institute of Brain Research at Peking University, and a doctoral supervisor. He graduated from the Department of Psychology of Peking University (now the School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences of Peking University) with a bachelor's degree in 2003. He received his M.S. in Developmental Psychology from the Department of Psychology and Neurosciences at Duke University in 2007 and his Ph.D. from the Department in 2009. In June 2009, he joined the Department of Psychology of Sun Yat-sen University as a lecturer and associate professor. In February 2015, he joined the School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences of Peking University. Researcher Yi Li has been committed to autism-related research for many years, using clinical research combined with cognitive methods to carry out a series of studies on the core disorders of children with autism and the mechanism of their related cognitive processes. Researcher Yi Li has presided over a number of projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Program and the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Program. She has made a number of important original achievements, and has published more than 30 papers in important international journals as the first or corresponding author, including Child Development, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Developmental Science, Autism Research and other international academic journals of developmental and clinical psychology. He has been selected into the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program" Young Talents Program, the Davos Forum Young Scientists, and the Liberal Arts Young Scholars of Peking University, and won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific Research in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education (Youth Achievement Award).

ZHANG Rong

Associate Professor, Institute of Neuroscience, Peking University

Co-founder of the Autism Research Center of Peking University Medical College

Executive Vice President of Beijing Neuroscience Society

Rong Zhang, with a bachelor's degree in pediatric medicine and a doctorate in neurobiology, graduated from Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, is now an associate professor at the Institute of Neuroscience of Peking University and an executive vice president of the Beijing Neuroscience Society.

He has been engaged in basic and clinical research related to autism for 13 years, focusing on the pathogenesis and diagnosis and treatment methods of autism. He has undertaken a number of national, provincial and ministerial projects and international cooperation projects on autism, published nearly 40 papers and reviews related to autism in Chinese and English, led the editor-in-chief of the first monograph in China to interpret autism from a neuroscientific perspective, "Autism Spectrum Disorder - Medical Frontiers and Research Progress", opened an elective course on autism in Peking University Medical College, and was responsible for compiling PBL teaching cases for autism and preclinical teaching. His research achievements in the field of autism have won 1 invention patent in the United States, 3 domestic invention and utility model patents, and 1 scale copyright. He is one of the co-founders of the Autism Professional Committee of the Beijing Neuroscience Society and the Autism Research Center of Peking University Medical College, and serves as a standing committee member of the Autism Working Committee of the China Social Welfare Foundation and the China Autistic Children's Institution Alliance, and has organized many international forums and public welfare activities for autism.

Gauya

Secretary-General of the General Assembly

Full-time Deputy Secretary-General of Beijing Neuroscience Society

Gao Ya, graduated from Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2014, with expertise in acupuncture. Since 2017, he has worked in the Beijing Neuroscience Society and is currently the full-time deputy secretary-general of the Beijing Neuroscience Society. He has long been committed to the development and exchange of scientific research and academic activities, and actively participated in the implementation of youth talent training and support programs. From 2017 to 2020, he organized the "Peking University Medical Autism International Forum" and the "Beijing Neuroscience Society Academic Annual Conference" for four consecutive years, and served as the general conductor of the venue. Planned and presided over the "Neuroscience Science Popularization Lecture Hall" series of special live lectures, including headaches, children's brain development, brain tumors, intestinal flora, depression, neuroimmune multiple sclerosis and other special sessions, with a total of 3 million online views. Organize the "2021 Beijing Area Widely Concerned Academic Achievements Report Meeting (Special Session in the Field of Brain Science)" sponsored by the Beijing Association for Science and Technology, and participate in the selection of outstanding academic achievements. Presided over the "Inaugural Meeting of the Headache and Sensory Disorders Professional Committee of the Beijing Neuroscience Society". Organized and presided over the "Preliminary Competition of Youth Academic Speech Competition of Beijing Neuroscience Society" and "Rematch of Youth Academic Speech Competition of Beijing Association of Science and Technology", which provided a communication platform for promoting the growth of young talents.