Evdokia Anagnostou is a professor in the Department of

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at the University of Toronto, and is cross-appointed as pediatric neurologist and a senior clinician scientist at the

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in Toronto, Canada. She is a Tier 2

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in Translational Therapeutics in

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Career

Anagnostou is currently a professor in the Department of

at the University of Toronto, and a senior clinician scientist at the

in Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on translating findings from basic research studies in the field of Autism Spectrum Disorder and related neurodevelopmental conditions into novel therapeutics. Upon realizing that patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder often have additional disorders (including

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and OCD), Anagnostou and her colleagues launched the Province of Ontario Neurodevelopmental Disorders (POND) Network in 2013 to study multiple neurodevelopmental disorders (including Autism Spectrum Disorder) together. She is a

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at POND, funded by the Ontario Brain Institute. POND co-investigators include

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. Anagnostou was appointed as the inaugural Dr. Stuart D. Sims Chair in Autism at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in December 2016, and co-leads the Autism Research Centre within the institution. She was also appointed as a

in Translational Therapeutics in

in November 2017. She is an associate editor for Molecular Autism and Autism Research, and a grant reviewer for multiple international agencies Anagnostou's research has been cited over 12545 times and has an

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of 53. She regularly comments on Autism Spectrum Disorder as an expert on various Canadian media platforms.

Selected bibliography

* Hollander et al. Striatal volume on magnetic resonance imaging and repetitive behaviors in autism.

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. 2005. * Hollander et al. Oxytocin increases retention of social cognition in autism.

. 2007. * King et al. Lack of efficacy of citalopram in children with autism spectrum disorders and high levels of repetitive behavior: citalopram ineffective in children with autism. Archives of General Psychiatry. 2009. * Glessner et al. Autism genome-wide copy number variation reveals ubiquitin and neuronal genes.

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. 2009. * Pinto et al. Convergence of genes and cellular pathways dysregulated in autism spectrum disorders. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 2014.

Honours and awards

* Inaugural Dr. Stuart D. Sims Chair in Autism at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital *

in Translational Therapeutics in

References

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