Carlos Pardo-Villamizar

Not to be confused with Carlos Pardo.

Carlos A. Pardo-Villamizar, also known simply as Carlos Pardo, is a professor of neurology and pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as the director of the Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center.[1] His area of expertise is immunopathology and the neuroimmune system. He is currently leading a project that investigates the role of neuroglial dysfunction in HIV infection and drug abuse, and has also published research concluding that the brains of autistic individuals exhibit neuroglial activation, loss of neurons in the Purkinje layer and neuroinflammation "in the same regions [of the brain] that appear to have excess white matter."[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Mealy, Maureen (January 2011). "The Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center: One Decade of Work and the Challenges for the Future". TMA. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  2. ^ Vargas, D. L.; Nascimbene, C.; Krishnan, C.; Zimmerman, A. W.; Pardo, C. A. (2005). "Neuroglial activation and neuroinflammation in the brain of patients with autism". Annals of Neurology. 57 (1): 67–81. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.512.6671. doi:10.1002/ana.20315. PMID 15546155. S2CID 777608.
  3. ^ Greenberg, David (15 November 2004). "Brain inflammation found in autism". Eurekalert!. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  4. ^ Blakeslee, Sandra (8 February 2005). "Focus Narrows in Search for Autism's Cause". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 October 2013.