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Bennett L. Leventhal

Bennett L. Leventhal

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Overview

Bennett L. Leventhal is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a strong focus on Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, General Health Professions, and Health Information Management.

Their work covers multiple topics, including:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Electronic Health Records Systems
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Leventhal has contributed to various publication venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (20 publications)
  • World Psychiatry (6 publications)
  • Molecular Autism (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry (3 publications)

Their body of work includes a number of recent papers, such as:

  • Prevalence and cumulative incidence of autism spectrum disorders and the patterns of co-occurring neurodevelopmental disorders in a total population sample of 5-year-old children, 2020, Molecular Autism
  • The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort, 2023, American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Prevalence of and Factors Associated with School Bullying in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis, 2020, Yonsei Medical Journal
  • Pharmacotherapy of restricted/repetitive behavior in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, BMC Psychiatry
  • Relationship Between Sleep and Behavior in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Exploring the Impact of Sleep Variability, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators in Leventhal's research include Norbert Skokauskas, Young S. Kim, Øystein Nytrø, Roman Koposov, and Thomas Brox Røst, with collaboration counts ranging from 14 to 26 co-authored works.

Best Publications

  • The autism diagnostic observation schedule-generic: a standard measure of social and communication deficits associated with the spectrum of autism.

    Catherine Lord;Susan Risi;Linda Lambrecht;Edwin H. Cook

  • Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Alistair T. Pagnamenta;Lambertus Klei;Richard Anney

  • Prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in a total population sample

    Young Shin Kim;Bennett L. Leventhal;Yun Joo Koh;Eric Fombonne

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

    Peter Szatmari;Andrew D. Paterson;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Wendy Roberts

  • Association of attention-deficit disorder and the dopamine transporter gene.

    E H Cook;M A Stein;M D Krasowski;N J Cox

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • The NKI-Rockland Sample: A Model for Accelerating the Pace of Discovery Science in Psychiatry.

    Kate Brody Nooner;Kate Brody Nooner;Stanley J. Colcombe;Russell H. Tobe;Maarten Mennes;Maarten Mennes

  • The Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS): Long-term effectiveness and safety outcomes

    John S. March;Susan Silva;Stephen Petrycki;John Curry

  • Autism or atypical autism in maternally but not paternally derived proximal 15q duplication.

    Edwin Cook;Valerie Lindgren;Bennett L. Leventhal;Rachel Courchesne

  • A full genome screen for autism with evidence for linkage to a region on chromosome 7q International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium

    Anthony Bailey;Amaia Hervas;Nicola Matthews;Sarah Palferman

  • A genome-wide scan for common alleles affecting risk for autism

    Richard Anney;Lambertus Klei;Dalila Pinto;Regina Regan

  • Enhancing studies of the connectome in autism using the autism brain imaging data exchange II

    Adriana Di Martino;David O'Connor;David O'Connor;Bosi Chen;Kaat Alaerts

  • Combining Information From Multiple Sources in the Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders.

    Susan Risi;Catherine Lord;Katherine Gotham;Christina Corsello

  • Evidence of linkage between the serotonin transporter and autistic disorder

    EH Cook;R Courchesne;C Lord;N J Cox

  • Association of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) in Caucasian children and adolescents with autism.

    Suma Jacob;Camille W. Brune;C. S. Carter;Bennett L. Leventhal

  • The serotonin system in autism.

    Edwin H. Cook;Bennett L Leventhal

  • Bullying and suicide. A review.

    Young Shin Kim;Bennett Leventhal

  • Linkage-Disequilibrium Mapping of Autistic Disorder, with 15q11-13 Markers

    Edwin H. Cook;Rachel Y. Courchesne;Nancy J. Cox;Catherine Lord

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Edwin H. Cook
Edwin H. Cook University of Illinois at Chicago
Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord University of California, Los Angeles
Geraldine Dawson
Geraldine Dawson Duke University
Michael P. Milham
Michael P. Milham Child Mind Institute
Lauren S. Wakschlag
Lauren S. Wakschlag Northwestern University
Robert L. Hendren
Robert L. Hendren University of California, San Francisco
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele Columbia University
Eric Courchesne
Eric Courchesne University of California, San Diego
Matthew S. Goodwin
Matthew S. Goodwin Northeastern University
F. Xavier Castellanos
F. Xavier Castellanos New York University

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