ASU Healthy Brain Aging Study – Tempe, AZ

The Autism Brain Aging Laboratory is among the first to study age-related changes in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) through neuropsychological evaluations and multi-modal neuroimaging.

This study is recruiting adults WITHOUT ASD to participate as healthy controls to compare to similar participants with ASD.

This study aims to understand aging’s impact on cognition and translate cognitive and brain findings into meaningful interventions for adults with ASD.

These findings will lay the groundwork for a precision medicine approach to predicting and treating neurodegeneration and accelerated cognitive aging in ASD.

Study participation is voluntary and will include:

• Memory and thinking assessments (3 hours)
• MRI brain scan (2 hours)
• Questionnaires
• Saliva sample (optional)
• Blood collection (optional)
• Optional questionnaires for a friend or loved one

This study visit will be repeated every 2 years to collect longitudinal data to help better understand brain changes.

Participants will be compensated for each study visit.