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New MIT center to fund autism research

Grants to focus on experimental ideas

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 14, 2011

A new center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will focus on unraveling the neuroscience behind social behaviors, helping push forward research and, the scientists hope, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders. The Simons Center for the Social Brain is funded by a $26.5 million gift from the Simons Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in New York that supports science and mathematics research and has previously provided another $15 million to the university to support autism research.

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