Dr. Lawrence Fung is an Assistant Professor (University Medical Line) at the Major Laboratories and Clinical Translational Neurosciences Incubator in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He received his BS with honors from the University of California at Berkeley, MS in Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, PhD from Cornell University, and MD from George Washington University. Dr. Fung completed his general psychiatry residency, child & adolescent psychiatry fellowship, and postdoctoral research fellowship at Stanford University.

Dr. Fung is a researcher and clinician specializing in autism and the father of a neurodiverse teenager on the autism spectrum. He serves as the principal investigator of studies investigating the neurobiology of autism by state-of-the-art molecular neuroimaging and bioanalytical technologies.

He studies novel pharmacologic interventions, including pregnenolone. Dr. Fung is the director of the Stanford Neurodiversity Project, which strives to uncover the strengths of neurodiverse individuals and utilize their talents to increase innovation and productivity of society as a whole. Dr. Fung directs the Adult Neurodevelopment Clinic, which specializes in assessing and treating adults on the autism spectrum. 

Neurodiversity at Work: https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity/NaW.html

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Stanford Neurodiversity Project: https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity.html

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