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Geraldine Dawson

Geraldine Dawson

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2025
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Psychology
USA
2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2012 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Geraldine Dawson is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology. Their research spans several subfields, including education, psychiatry and mental health, and genetics.

The primary areas of study in their work include autism spectrum disorder research, child development and digital technology, family and disability support research, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, child nutrition and feeding issues, and virology and viral diseases.

Geraldine Dawson has published significant research in a number of reputable venues. Frequent publication outlets include UNC Libraries, the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Autism Research, the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and Scientific Reports.

Several coauthors have collaborated regularly with Dawson, including Kimberly L. H. Carpenter, Sara Jane Webb, Lauren Franz, James C. McPartland, and Frederick Shic.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Geraldine Dawson include:

  • Practice guideline: Treatment for insomnia and disrupted sleep behavior in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (2020, Neurology)
  • The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT): Scientific Context, Study Design, and Progress Toward Biomarker Qualification (2020, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience)
  • A Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Effects of Intervention Intensity and Intervention Style on Outcomes for Young Children With Autism (2020, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
  • Computational Methods to Measure Patterns of Gaze in Toddlers With Autism Spectrum Disorder (2021, JAMA Pediatrics)
  • Prediction of autism in infants: progress and challenges (2022, The Lancet Neurology)

Throughout their career, Dawson has been recognized with several awards. They were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020, received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2012, and were recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Randomized, Controlled Trial of an Intervention for Toddlers With Autism: The Early Start Denver Model

    Geraldine Dawson;Sally J Rogers;Jeffrey Munson;Milani Smith

  • Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism

    Silvia De Rubeis;Xin-Xin He;Arthur P Goldberg;Christopher S. Poultney

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

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

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

  • Early Social Attention Impairments in Autism: Social Orienting, Joint Attention, and Attention to Distress.

    Geraldine Dawson;Karen Toth;Robert Abbott;Julie Osterling

  • 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

  • Early recognition of children with autism: A study of first birthday home videotapes

    Julie Osterling;Geraldine Dawson

  • The screening and diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorders

    Pauline A. Filipek;Pasquale J. Accardo;Grace T. Baranek;Edwin H. Cook

  • Autism genome-wide copy number variation reveals ubiquitin and neuronal genes

    Joseph T. Glessner;Kai Wang;Guiqing Cai;Olena Korvatska

  • Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

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

  • Early behavioral intervention, brain plasticity, and the prevention of autism spectrum disorder.

    Geraldine Dawson

  • Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions: Empirically Validated Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Laura Schreibman;Geraldine Dawson;Aubyn C. Stahmer;Rebecca Landa

  • Children with autism fail to orient to naturally occurring social stimuli.

    Geraldine Dawson;Andrew N. Meltzoff;Julie Osterling;Julie Rinaldi

  • Practice parameter: Screening and diagnosis of autism Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society

    P. A. Filipek;P. J. Accardo;S. Ashwal;G. T. Baranek

  • Brain structural abnormalities in young children with autism spectrum disorder.

    B. F. Sparks;S. D. Friedman;D. W. Shaw;E. H. Aylward

  • Understanding the nature of face processing impairment in autism: insights from behavioral and electrophysiological studies.

    Geraldine Dawson;Sara Jane Webb;James McPartland

  • Early recognition of 1-year-old infants with autism spectrum disorder versus mental retardation

    Julie A. Osterling;Geraldine Dawson;Jeffrey A. Munson

  • Parenting stress and psychological functioning among mothers of preschool children with autism and developmental delay

    Annette Estes;Jeffrey Munson;Geraldine Dawson;Elizabeth Koehler

  • Convergence of Genes and Cellular Pathways Dysregulated in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Elsa Delaby;Elsa Delaby;Elsa Delaby;Daniele Merico;Mafalda Barbosa

  • Validation of the Phenomenon of Autistic Regression Using Home Videotapes

    Emily Werner;Geraldine Dawson

  • Common genetic variants on 5p14.1 associate with autism spectrum disorders

    Kai Wang;Haitao Zhang;Deqiong Ma;Maja Bucan

Frequent Co-Authors

Annette Estes
Annette Estes University of Washington
Sara Jane Webb
Sara Jane Webb Seattle Children's Hospital
Gerard D. Schellenberg
Gerard D. Schellenberg University of Pennsylvania
Sally J. Rogers
Sally J. Rogers University of California, Davis
Raphael Bernier
Raphael Bernier University of Washington
Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord University of California, Los Angeles
Bennett L. Leventhal
Bennett L. Leventhal University of Chicago
Edwin H. Cook
Edwin H. Cook University of Illinois at Chicago
Guillermo Sapiro
Guillermo Sapiro Princeton University
William M. McMahon
William M. McMahon University of Utah

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