Autism Spectrum Disorder

Edited by Christopher McDougle, MD, Director, Lurie Center for Autism; Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics; Nancy Lurie Marks Professor in the Field of Autism, Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital for Children; Harvard Medical School

Christopher J. McDougle, M.D. is the Director of the Lurie Center for Autism at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Nancy Lurie Marks Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. McDougle has been providing care for children, adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their family members for 25 years. His research interests include the neurobiology of ASD and the neuropsychopharmacology of core and related target symptoms associated with ASD. Dr. McDougle has published more than 400 scientific articles, been the principal investigator on multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health and various foundations, and mentored numerous students, residents/fellows and junior faculty now involved in the field of ASD.

Robert E. Accordino, MD, MSc
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital
Boston/Belmont, MA, USA
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Matthew P. Anderson, MD, PhD
Director of Neuropathology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA
Associate Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Fiona Baumer, MD
Chief Resident in Child Neurology
Department of Neurology
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Harrison Brand, PhD
Research Fellow
Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit
Molecular Neurogenetics Unit
Center for Human Genetic Research
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
Research Fellow in Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Edward S. Brodkin, MD
Director, Adult Autism Spectrum Program
Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Kirstin Brown Birtwell, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lurie Center for Autism
Lexington, MA, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Katelyn A. Bruno, MA, CCC-SLP
Speech and Language Pathologist
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Lurie Center for Autism
Lexington, MA, USA

Luis M. Carcache, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Florida International University
School of Medicine
Miami, FL, USA

Marji Erickson Warfield, PhD
Director and Senior Scientist
The Nathan and Toby Starr Center on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA, USA

Veronica P. Fleury, PhD, BCBA
Autism Spectrum Disorder Program Coordinator
Assistant Professor
Special Education
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Susan E. Folstein, MD
Adjunct Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Florida International University
School of Medicine
Miami, FL, USA

Eric Fombonne, MD
Director of Autism Research
Institute for Development & Disability
Professor of Psychiatry
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR, USA

Leslie C. Fox, PhD
Research Assistant
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Lawrence K. Fung, MD, PhD
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA, USA

Michael Gandal, MD, PhD
General Psychiatry Resident
Research Track
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Isobel W. Green
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA

Kristina L. Gulati, MA, CCC-SLP
Speech and Language Pathologist
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Lurie Center for Autism
Lexington, MA, USA

Susan H. Hedges, MA
Doctoral Candidate
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Robert L. Hendren, DO
Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Director, Autism and Neurodevelopment Program
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
San Francisco, CA, USA
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Psychiatry
UCSF School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA, USA

Allison Presmanes Hill, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Center for Spoken Language Understanding
Institute for Development & Disability
Department of Pediatrics
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR, USA

Jacob M. Hooker, PhD
Director of Radiochemistry
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Yamini J. Howe, MD
Lurie Center for Autism
Massachusetts General Hospital for Children
Lexington, MA, USA
Instructor in Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Patricia Howlin, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Child Psychiatry
Institute of Psychiatry
King's College
London, UK
Professor of Developmental Disabilities
Brain and Mind Research Institute
University of Sydney
Sidney, AU

Suzannah Iadarola, PhD, BCBA-D
Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities
Division of Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY, USA

Christen L. Kidd, MD
Resident in Psychiatry
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, NY, USA

Kimberly Lo, MD
Triple Board Resident
Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN, USA

Dorothy Lucci, MEd, CAGS
Program Director
Aspire
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lurie Center for Autism
Lexington, MA, USA

Cathy Lurie
The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation
Wellesley, MA, USA

Nancy Lurie Marks, PhDhc
The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation
Wellesley, MA, USA

Iliana Magiati, PhD, DClinPsy
Assistant Professor/Chartered Clinical Psychologist
Department of Psychology
National University of Singapore
Singapore, Singapore

Kristin W. Malatino, PhD
Private Practice
Celebration, FL, USA

James T. McCracken, MD
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART)
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Joseph Campbell Professor of Child Psychiatry and Vice Chair
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Christopher J. McDougle, MD
Director, Lurie Center for Autism
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lexington, MA, USA
Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

D. Scott McLeod, PhD
Executive Director
Aspire
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lurie Center for Autism
Lexington, MA, USA
Instructor in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Maria Mody, PhD
Assistant Neuroscientist
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA USA
Lurie Center for Autism
MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Lexington, MA, USA
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Tiffany J. Neal, PhD
Assistant Director
HANDS in Autism Interdisciplinary Training and Resource Center
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN, USA

Ann Neumeyer, MD
Medical Director, Lurie Center for Autism
MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Lexington, MA, USA
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Lisa Nowinski, PhD
Staff Psychologist
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lurie Center for Autism
Lexington, MA, USA
Instructor in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Samuel L. Odom, PhD
Director
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Professor
School of Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Michelle L. Palumbo, MD
Lurie Center for Autism
MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Lexington, MA, USA
Instructor in Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Nigel P. Pierce
Assistant Professor
School of Education
North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC, USA

Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH
Member, Berman Institute of Bioethics
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA

Allan L. Reiss, MD
Robbins Professor and Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research
Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Professor of Radiology and of Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA, USA

Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD
Department of Neurology
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Clarence E. Schutt, PhD
The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation
Wellesley, MA, USA
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA

Tristram Smith, PhD
Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities
Division of Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY, USA

Melissa A. Sreckovic, MEd
Doctoral Candidate
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Jennifer L. Stornelli, MOT, OTR/L
Occupational Therapist
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Lurie Center for Autism
Lexington, MA, USA

Thayne L. Sweeten, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Department of Biology
Utah State University
Logan, UT, USA

Naomi B. Swiezy, PhD, HSPP
Director
HANDS in Autism Interdisciplinary Training and Resource Center
Alan H. Cohen Family Professor of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN, USA

Michael Talkowski, PhD
Director, Genomics and Technology Core
Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit
Molecular Neurogenetics Unit
Center for Human Genetic Research
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Fred R. Volkmar, MD
Director, Child Study Center
Irving B. Harris Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA

Danielle Warner, MA
Community and Research Liaison
HANDS in Autism Interdisciplinary Training and Resource Center
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN, USA

John M. Williams, BFA
Winchester, MA, USA

Brian Willoughby, PhD
Staff Psychologist
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Learning and Emotional Assessment Program (LEAP)
Boston, MA, USA
Instructor in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Katharine Zuckerman, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Division of General Pediatrics
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR, USA

Nicole R. Zürcher, PhD
Research Fellow
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA
Research Fellow in Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

"The autism spectrum is a wide landscape that this smartly conceived book maps with sweep and precision. The brilliant cartographer" - autism guru Christopher McDougle

"In this comprehensive text, Christopher McDougle embraces the complexities of Autism, engaging a world-class group of clinicians and scientists to update us on its various clinical presentations, etiological heterogeneity, diagnostic strategies and multimodal treatments." " - James F. Leckman, MD, PhD, Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT

"Chris McDougle and his colleagues have prepared a helpful text for students and more advanced trainees about advances in autism - diagnosis, etiology, and treatment. The book presents well-researched chapters in each of these areas, as well as some attention to a few other issues in autism, including the key area of transition to adulthood. Each chapter ends with a few key points for students to remember. The book is a welcome and useful addition to the training of the next generation of clinicians working with families caring for children and youth with autism spectrum disorders." " - James M. Perrin, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, John C. Robinson Chair in Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Founding director, Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health