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Research interests
My research focuses on the development of social motivation in infants and young children. Social motivation is the human predisposition to connect with others, and this disruption in this domain of function is hypothesized to underlie core symptoms in ASD. My work includes developing measures of social motivation to be applied in early childhood (with a focus on children at risk of ASD), using existing data to characterize early brain-behavior relationships underlying social motivation, and investigating the relationship between social motivation and other skills domains, such as language.
Clinical interests
Child and adolescent psychiatry, autism, pervasive developmental disorder, developmental disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, mood disorder, anxiety disorder, school consultation
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Extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid volumes from 6 to 24 months of age are associated with poorer executive function at school-age in children with and without autism
Zhang, Y., Rutsohn, J., Kim, S. H., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., Zwaigenbaum, L., Burrows, C., Dager, S. R., John, T. S., Estes, A. M., McKinstry, R. C., Marrus, N., Pruett, J. R., Styner, M., Hazlett, H. C., Piven, J., Shen, M. D. & Garic, D., Dec 2026, In: Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders. 18, 1, 9.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Human cortical organoids recapitulate inter-individual variability in infant brain-growth trajectories
The Infant Brain Imaging Study Network, Jan 8 2026, In: Cell Stem Cell. 33, 1, p. 142-156.e7Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Lunar rhythms in sleep patterns of children with a family history of autism
Rodríguez Ferrante, G., Munson, J., St. John, T., Pandey, J., Zwaigenbaum, L., Dager, S. R., Marrus, N., Hazlett, H. C., Piven, J., De la Iglesia, H. O. & Estes, A., Feb 1 2026, In: Sleep. 49, 2, zsaf340.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Phenotype Representation and Analysis via Discriminative Atypicality (PRADA) to Capture the Structural Heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Onemli, E., Mahmood, A., Azrak, O., Garic, D., Swanson, M. R., Grzadzinski, R., Mata, K., Shen, M. D., Girault, J. B., St. John, T., Pandey, J., Zwaigenbaum, L., Estes, A. M., Shen, A. M., Dager, S. R., Schultz, R. T., Botteron, K. N., Evans, A. C., Elison, J. T. & Yacoub, E. & 8 others, , 2026, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025 - 28th International Conference, 2025, Proceedings. Gee, J. C., Hong, J., Sudre, C. H., Golland, P., Alexander, D. C., Iglesias, J. E., Venkataraman, A. & Kim, J. H. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 473-483 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15961 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Time trends in the male to female ratio for autism incidence: population based, prospectively collected, birth cohort study
Fyfe, C., Winell, H., Dougherty, J., Gutmann, D. H., Kolevzon, A., Marrus, N., Tedroff, K., Turner, T. N., Weiss, L. A., Yip, B. H. K., Yin, W. & Sandin, S., Feb 4 2026, In: BMJ. 392, e084164.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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