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Joseph Piven is a researcher primarily affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. The bulk of their work intersects the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with prominent subfields including cognitive neuroscience, genetics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, clinical psychology, and education.

The scientist's research concentrates significantly on topics related to autism spectrum disorder research, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, family and disability support research, child development and digital technology, fetal and pediatric neurological disorders, child nutrition and feeding issues, and neonatal and fetal brain pathology.

Joseph Piven has contributed to various publications, frequently appearing in the following venues:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Autism Research
  • JAMA Network Open

Recent papers by Joseph Piven include:

  • "The Impact of COVID-19 on Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Clinical and Scientific Priorities," 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Common genetic risk variants identified in the SPARK cohort support DDHD2 as a candidate risk gene for autism," 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Associations of Neighborhood Opportunity and Social Vulnerability With Trajectories of Childhood Body Mass Index and Obesity Among US Children," 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • "Sleep Onset Problems and Subcortical Development in Infants Later Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder," 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Subcortical Brain Development in Autism and Fragile X Syndrome: Evidence for Dynamic, Age- and Disorder-Specific Trajectories in Infancy," 2022, American Journal of Psychiatry

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Stephen R. Dager
  • Heather C. Hazlett
  • Annette Estes
  • Robert T. Schultz
  • Kelly N. Botteron

Best Publications

  • User-guided 3D active contour segmentation of anatomical structures: Significantly improved efficiency and reliability

    Paul A. Yushkevich;Joseph Piven;Heather Cody Hazlett;Rachel Gimpel Smith

  • 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

  • Visual Scanning of Faces in Autism

    Kevin A. Pelphrey;Noah J. Sasson;J. Steven Reznick;Gregory Paul

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

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

  • Sociability and preference for social novelty in five inbred strains: an approach to assess autistic-like behavior in mice

    Sheryl S Moy;J. J. Nadler;A. Perez;R. P. Barbaro

  • Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

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

  • Early brain development in infants at high risk for autism spectrum disorder

    Heather Cody Hazlett;Hongbin Gu;Brent C. Munsell;Sun Hyung Kim

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

    Kai Wang;Haitao Zhang;Deqiong Ma;Maja Bucan

  • Broader autism phenotype: Evidence from a family history study of multiple-incidence autism families

    Joseph Piven;Pat Palmer;Dinah Jacobi;Debra Childress

  • Abnormal Processing of Social Information from Faces in Autism

    Ralph Adolphs;Lonnie Sears;Joseph Piven

  • Magnetic resonance imaging and head circumference study of brain size in autism: birth through age 2 years.

    Heather Cody Hazlett;Michele Poe;Guido Gerig;Rachel Gimpel Smith

  • Automated apparatus for quantitation of social approach behaviors in mice.

    J. J. Nadler;S. S. Moy;G. Dold;D. Trang

  • Differences in white matter fiber tract development present from 6 to 24 months in infants with autism.

    Jason J. Wolff;Hongbin Gu;Guido Gerig;Jed T. Elison

  • The broad autism phenotype questionnaire.

    Robert S E Hurley;Molly Losh;Morgan Parlier;J Steven Reznick

  • A genome-wide linkage and association scan reveals novel loci for autism

    Lauren A. Weiss;Lauren A. Weiss;Dan E. Arking;Mark J. Daly;Mark J. Daly;Aravinda Chakravarti

  • Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia

    Richard J.L. Anney;Richard J.L. Anney;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Verneri Anttila;Jakob Grove;Jakob Grove

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

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

    Richard Anney;Lambertus Klei;Dalila Pinto;Regina Regan

  • An MRI Study of Brain Size in Autism

    Joseph Piven;Stephan Arndt;James Bailey;Susan Havercamp

Frequent Co-Authors

Heather C. Hazlett
Heather C. Hazlett University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Guido Gerig
Guido Gerig New York University
Annette Estes
Annette Estes University of Washington
Martin Styner
Martin Styner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert T. Schultz
Robert T. Schultz Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Stephen R. Dager
Stephen R. Dager University of Washington
Jed T. Elison
Jed T. Elison University of Minnesota
Sarah Paterson
Sarah Paterson Temple University
Susan E. Folstein
Susan E. Folstein University of Miami

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