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Overview

Robert T. Schultz is affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the United States. Their research primarily spans neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions in subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, clinical psychology, genetics, and education.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
  • Neonatal and Fetal Brain Pathology
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Some of their recent publications are:

  • "Associations of Neighborhood Opportunity and Social Vulnerability With Trajectories of Childhood Body Mass Index and Obesity Among US Children," 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • "A Genetics-First Approach to Dissecting the Heterogeneity of Autism: Phenotypic Comparison of Autism Risk Copy Number Variants," 2021, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Gross motor impairment and its relation to social skills in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and two meta-analyses," 2022, Psychological Bulletin
  • "Subcortical Brain Development in Autism and Fragile X Syndrome: Evidence for Dynamic, Age- and Disorder-Specific Trajectories in Infancy," 2022, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Sex differences in the first impressions made by girls and boys with autism," 2020, Molecular Autism

Robert T. Schultz has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Stephen R. Dager (77 collaborations)
  • Heather C. Hazlett (69 collaborations)
  • Joseph Piven (68 collaborations)
  • Annette Estes (66 collaborations)
  • Kelly N. Botteron (64 collaborations)

The scientist has published extensively in various academic venues, with the most frequent including:

  • UNC Libraries (19 publications)
  • Autism Research (8 publications)
  • Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (8 publications)
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (6 publications)
  • Molecular Autism (5 publications)

Best Publications

  • Visual fixation patterns during viewing of naturalistic social situations as predictors of social competence in individuals with autism.

    Ami Klin;Warren Jones;Robert Schultz;Fred Volkmar

  • The Social Motivation Theory of Autism

    Coralie Chevallier;Gregor Kohls;Vanessa Troiani;Vanessa Troiani;Edward S. Brodkin

  • The enactive mind, or from actions to cognition: lessons from autism

    Ami Klin;Warren Jones;Robert T. Schultz;Fred R. Volkmar

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

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

  • Developmental deficits in social perception in autism: the role of the amygdala and fusiform face area.

    Robert T. Schultz

  • Abnormal ventral temporal cortical activity during face discrimination among individuals with autism and Asperger syndrome.

    Robert T. Schultz;Isabel Gauthier;Ami Klin;Robert K. Fulbright

  • Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders

    Fred R. Volkmar;Catherine Lord;Anthony Bailey;Robert T. Schultz

  • Harmonization of multi-site diffusion tensor imaging data.

    Jean-Philippe Fortin;Drew Parker;Birkan Tunç;Takanori Watanabe

  • 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

  • Three diagnostic approaches to Asperger syndrome: implications for research.

    Ami Klin;David Pauls;Robert Schultz;Fred Volkmar

  • 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

  • Abnormal functional connectivity of default mode sub-networks in autism spectrum disorder patients.

    Michal Assaf;Kanchana Jagannathan;Vince D. Calhoun;Laura Miller

  • Defining and quantifying the social phenotype in autism.

    Ami Klin;Warren Jones;Robert Schultz;Fred Volkmar

  • Optimal Outcome in Individuals with a History of Autism

    Deborah Fein;Marianne Barton;Inge-Marie Eigsti;Elizabeth Kelley

  • A placebo-controlled study of guanfacine in the treatment of children with tic disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    Larry Scahill;Phillip B. Chappell;Young S. Kim;Robert T. Schultz

  • The Developmental Neurobiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom;Catherine Lord;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Eric Courchesne;Eric Courchesne

  • The role of the fusiform face area in social cognition: implications for the pathobiology of autism.

    Robert T. Schultz;David J. Grelotti;Ami Klin;Jamie Kleinman

  • Social interest and the development of cortical face specialization: what autism teaches us about face processing.

    David J. Grelotti;Isabel Gauthier;Robert T. Schultz

  • A placebo-controlled trial of risperidone in Tourette syndrome

    L. Scahill;J.F. Leckman;R.T. Schultz;L. Katsovich

  • Autism

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Frequent Co-Authors

John D. Herrington
John D. Herrington Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Annette Estes
Annette Estes University of Washington
Benjamin E. Yerys
Benjamin E. Yerys Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Heather C. Hazlett
Heather C. Hazlett University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephen R. Dager
Stephen R. Dager University of Washington
Judith Miller
Judith Miller University of Pennsylvania
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Jed T. Elison
Jed T. Elison University of Minnesota
Sarah Paterson
Sarah Paterson Temple University
Ami Klin
Ami Klin Emory University

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