Neurodevelopmental Disorders

When growth of the brain and nervous system is impaired, it can affect learning ability, memory and emotion as children develop.

Research and clinical care related to neurodevelopmental disorders focus on the causes of, and treatments for, autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit disorder, bipolar and other mood disorders and schizophrenia.

Institute researchers are pursuing projects involving:

• Genetic and molecular mechanisms in autism

• Biological and behavioral mechanisms in bipolar disorder

• Drug development for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

• New MRI techniques to understand autism, epilepsy and ADD

Team

• Thomas Anders, MD, senior research scientist, Bradley Hospital 

• Kevin Bath, PhD, assistant professor (research), Department of Neuroscience, Brown University

• Kavita Babu, MD, assistant professor, department of emergency medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• Stephan Buka, professor and chair of epidemiology, Brown University

• Linda Carpenter, MD, associate professor, department of psychiatry and human behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; director, Mood Disorders Research Program, Butler Hospital

• Elizabeth Conradt, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk, Women & Infants Hospital

• G. Rees Cosgrove, MD, FRCS (C) clinical director, Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute

• Mara Coyle, MD, neonatologist, Women & Infants Hospital; associate professor of pediatrics, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• Sean Deoni, PhD, assistant professor, School of Engineering, Brown University

• Daniel Dickstein, MD, director, Pediatric Mood, Imaging and Neurodevelopment Program (Pedi-MIND), Bradley Hospital; assistant professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Pediatrics, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• Justin Fallon, PhD, professor, department of neuroscience, Brown University

• Gregory Fritz, MD, academic director, Bradley Hospital; director, Bradley/Hasbro Children’s Research Center; professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• Benjamin Greenberg, MD, PhD, chief of outpatient services, Butler Hospital; associate professor, department of psychiatry and human behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• Pamela High, MD, director, division of developmental-behavioral pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital; professor in the Department of Pediatrics, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• H.T. Kao, MD, PhD, associate professor, department of psychiatry and human behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; director, laboratory for molecular psychiatry, Butler Hospital

• Linda L. LaGasse, PhD, associate professor, department of pediatrics, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; director of research, Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital

• Debra Lobato, PhD, director of child psychology, Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital; professor, department of psychiatry and human behavior and Pediatrics, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• Barry Lester, PhD, director, Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital, professor, department of psychiatry and human behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• Todd P. Levine, MD, instructor, department of psychiatry and human behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital

• Carmen Marsit, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, Brown University

• Eric Morrow, MD, PhD, director, developmental disorders genetics research program at Bradley Hospital and Brown University; assistant professor in the department of molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry, Brown University

• James Padbury, MD, Oh-Zopfi professor of pediatrics, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; pediatrician-in-chief, Women & Infants Hospital 

• Noah Philip, MD, assistant professor, department of psychiatry and human behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; staff psychologist and neuromodulation fellow, Butler Hospital

• Lawrence H. Price, MD, professor of psychiatry and human behavior; director of research; clinical director, Butler Hospital

• Henry Sachs, MD, medical director, Bradley Hospital; associate professor in the department of psychiatry and human behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• Amy L. Salisbury, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital

• Stephen Sheinkopf, PhD, staff psychologist, Bradley Hospital; assistant professor, Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk; assistant professor of research in the departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Pediatrics, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• Ronald Seifer, PhD, director of research, Bradley Hospital; professor, department of psychiatry and human behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• Laura Stroud, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior, Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital

• Lawrence H. Sweet, PhD, associate professor, department of psychiatry and human behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; director, Neuroimaging Center, Butler Hospital

• Mary Sullivan, PhD, RN, professor of nursing, University of Rhode Island; Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk, Women & Infants Hospital

• Jean Twomey, MSW, PhD, assistant professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior (Research), Brown University

• Audrey R. Tyrka, MD, PhD, associate professor, department of psychiatry and human behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; director, laboratory for clinical and translational neuroscience, Butler Hospital

• David Vandyke, DC, DO, clinical assistant professor of family medicine

• Yvette Yatchmink, MD, pediatrician, Children’s Neurodevelopment Center, Rhode Island Hospital;associate professor in the department of pediatrics, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University