Professional Overview
Honors and Awards
- Neural correlates of major depression with suicidal ideation in female adolescents, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) (2005-2007)
- White matter structure in Children with Autism, their siblings and controls, National Alliance for Research of Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD) (2005-2007)
- Cortical folding complexity in children with autism, their autism-discordant siblings, and controls, Autism Speaks Physician/Investigator Beginning Autism Research Award (2008-2010)
- Brain white-matter pathways in sibling-pair offspring of parents with bipolar disorder, Child Health Research Program (CHRP), Stanford University School of Medicine (2008-2009)
Scientific Focus
Publications
- Preliminary evidence of abnormal white matter related to the fusiform gyrus in Williams syndrome: a diffusion tensor imaging tractography study. Genes Brain Behav. 2012; (1): 62-8
- White Matter Aberrations in Prepubertal Estrogen-Naive Girls with Monosomic Turner Syndrome. Cereb Cortex. 2011
- Similar white matter aberrations in children with autism and their unaffected siblings: a diffusion tensor imaging study using tract-based spatial statistics. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2010; (10): 1052-60
- Early white-matter abnormalities of the ventral frontostriatal pathway in fragile X syndrome. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2009; (8): 593-9
- Limbic and corpus callosum aberrations in adolescents with bipolar disorder: a tract-based spatial statistics analysis. Biol Psychiatry. 2009; (3): 238-44
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