Daniel H Geschwind

Dept of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, United States of America

Daniel Geschwind

Academic positions:
- Director of the UCLA Center for Autism Research, Semel Institute and Neurogenetics Program, Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
- Co-Director Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, UCLA Semel Institute
- Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Human Genetics, Neurology and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
- Member of the UCLA Intercampus Medical Genetics training program.

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
The Geschwind lab is interested in understanding the genetic basis of human cognitive specializations, autism and neurodegenerative diseases. They use a combination of genetic and neurobiological methods in their work and frequently collaborate laboratories with expertise in other disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, stem cells, neuroimaging, statistics and linguistics. One methodological focuses involves the application of genomic screening methods, such as cDNA microarray technology for gene expression analysis and gene discovery.

Any other information:
Dr. Geschwind chaired the scientific steering committee of the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE, 1999-2004) and is member of the Cure Autism Now (CAN) Scientific Advisory Board (now merged with Autism Speaks). He also serves on the editorial boards of Lancet Neurology and Current Genomics and is Associate Editor of Neurobiology of Disease.

He received the Derek Denny-Brown Neurological Scholar Award, American Neurological Association in 2004.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Neurological Disorders > Neurogenetics (since 16 November 2005)

Daniel H Geschwind is a Section Head for Neurogenetics, part of the NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://geschwindlab.neurology.ucla.edu/

All recent recommendations

• 9.6
  Cortico-striatal synaptic defects and OCD-like behaviours in Sapap3-mutant mice.
  Recommended by X.William Yang, Daniel Geschwind
  
• 4.8
  Early frontotemporal dementia targets neurons unique to apes and humans.
  Recommended by Arthur Craig, Daniel Geschwind
  
• 3.2
  Social mind representation: where does it fail in frontotemporal dementia?
  Recommended by Daniel Geschwind, Argye Hillis