# Charles A Nelson Professor of Pediatrics ![nelson_charles.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3501/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/dms/files/nelson_charles.jpg?itok=EvaUJxgI) location\_on Boston Children's Hospital Director of Research, Developmental Medicine Center 1 Autumn Street, 6th Floor Boston, MA 02115 smartphone [617.355.0401](tel:617.355.0401) email laptop\_windows [Lab website](https://www.childrenshospital.org/Research/Labs/nelson-laboratory) laptop\_windows [Publications](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=(%22Harvard%22%5BAffiliation%5D%20OR%20%22Children%27s%22%5BAffiliation%5D)%20AND%20Nelson%20CA%5BAuthor%5D&cmd=DetailsSearch&log$=details) I have more than 25 years of experience working in the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience. My laboratory employs a variety of behavioral and neuroimaging tools, including eye-tracking, EEG, ERP, fNIRS, sMRI, and fMRI. There are three lines of research currently active in my laboratory. One concerns the development and neural bases of processing social information (e.g., facial emotion); a second focuses on trajectories to autism, with a particular focus on populations at high risk for developing autism (e.g., infants with an older sibling with autism; children with various single gene mutations that appear to confer risk for developing autism); a third focuses on the effects of early adversity on brain and behavioral development. - ## Faculty [PiN](/faculty/pin)