Robert Schultz, PhD
Harris Associate Professor of Psychology and Child Psychiatry

Mentee:
Nina Kadan-Lottick, MD, MSPH

Dr. Schultz is the director of the Yale Developmental Imaging Program. His research focuses on the biological bases of autism spectrum disorders and the genetic forms of mental retardation, as well as a variety of other childhood psychiatric disorders. He uses structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and detailed neuropsychological assessments to study brain anatomy and function in these disorders. Using functional MRI, he and his colleagues are also mapping brain systems involved in the perception of human faces, facial expressions and inferences of social attribution in patients with autism and Williams Syndrome. Dr. Schultz is the co-author of numerous articles on childhood disorders and development disabilities, neuropsychology, and other topics, which have appeared in such publications as the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Archives of General Psychiatry, the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Annals of Neurology and others.