Sara Jane Webb, PhD

Sara Jane Webb, PhD

Academic Title: Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Research Title: Principal Investigator

Research Center: Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development

"By understanding genetics and brain functioning, we hope to be able to predict which interventions will work for each child with autism spectrum disorder. The mission of my lab is to conduct state-of-the-art research into the etiology, course, and treatment of developmental disabilities in an academic training environment."

  • Biography

    Dr. Sara Jane Webb is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD in child/developmental psychology. Her research is focused on development in individuals with autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, 16p11.2 deletion syndrome and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

    Webb is the recipient of the Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award and associate director of the University of Washington Intellectual and Developmental Disability Research Center, steering board member for Seattle Children's Research Institute's Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development and the UW Molecular Medicines and Mechanisms of Disease Program, and faculty liaison for Seattle Children's Research Institute's Office of Teaching, Research and Education.

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  • Awards and Honors

    Award Name Award Description Awarded By Award Date
    UW Medicine Excellence in Mentoring Award, Recognized Nominee UW School of Medicine 2017
    Summary of Advances, Nominated Article Early sex differences are not autism-specific: A baby siblings research consortium study. Molecular Autism Interagency Autism Coordinating Council 2016
    Summary of Advances, Selected Article Reduced engagement with social stimuli in 6-month old infants with later ASD. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Interagency Autism Coordinating Council 2016
    UW Undergraduate Research Mentor Award University of Washington 2015
    UW Medicine Excellence in Mentoring Award, Recognized Nominee UW School of Medicine 2014
    Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs Early behavioral intervention is associated with normalized brain activity in young children with autism. Journal of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Time Magazine 2012
    Women in Psychology Leadership Fellow American Psychological Association 2011 - 2012

  • Publications

    Other Publications

    • Griffin JW, Webb SJ, Keehn B, Dawson G, McPartland JC
      Autistic Individuals Do Not Alter Visual Processing Strategy During Encoding Versus Recognition of Faces: A Hidden Markov Modeling Approach.
      38430386 Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2024 Mar 2
    • Newman BT, Jacokes Z, Venkadesh S, Webb SJ, Kleinhans NM, McPartland JC, Druzgal TJ, Pelphrey KA, Van Horn JD, GENDAAR Research Consortium
      Conduction Velocity, G-ratio, and Extracellular Water as Microstructural Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
      37546913 bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024 Feb 14 : PMCID:PMC10402058
    • Neuhaus E, Bernier RA, Webb SJ
      Social motivation by self- and caregiver-report: Reporter concordance and social correlates among autistic and neurotypical youth.
      37987233 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2024 Jan. : 17(1)55-65 PMCID:PMC10843724
    • Neuhaus E, Santhosh M, Kresse A, Aylward E, Bernier R, Bookheimer S, Jeste S, Jack A, McPartland JC, Naples A, Van Horn JD, Pelphrey K, Webb SJ, ACE GENDAAR Network
      Frontal EEG alpha asymmetry in youth with autism: Sex differences and social-emotional correlates.
      37776030 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2023 Dec. : 16(12)2364-2377 PMCID:PMC10840952
    • Shic F, Barney EC, Naples AJ, Dommer KJ, Chang SA, Li B, McAllister T, Atyabi A, Wang Q, Bernier R, Dawson G, Dziura J, Faja S, Jeste SS, Murias M, Johnson SP, Sabatos-DeVito M, Helleman G, Senturk D, Sugar CA, Webb SJ, McPartland JC, Chawarska K, Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials
      The Selective Social Attention task in children with autism spectrum disorder: Results from the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT) feasibility study.
      37749934 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2023 Nov. : 16(11)2150-2159
    • Rea HM, Clawson A, Hudac CM, Santhosh M, Bernier RA, Earl RK, Pelphrey KA, Webb SJ, Neuhaus E, GENDAAR Consortium
      Pubertal maturation and timing effects on resting state electroencephalography in autistic and comparison youth.
      37860899 Developmental psychobiology, 2023 Nov. : 65(7)e22415 PMCID:PMC10713348
    • Fan X, Kolodny T, Woodard KM, Tasevac A, Ganz WR, Rea HM, Kurtz-Nelson EC, Webb SJ, Murray SO
      Rhythmic attentional sampling in autism.
      37676241 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2023 Nov. : 16(11)2090-2099 PMCID:PMC10840939
    • O'Reilly C, Huberty S, van Noordt S, Desjardins J, Wright N, Scorah J, Webb SJ, Elsabbagh M, BASIS team
      EEG functional connectivity in infants at elevated familial likelihood for autism spectrum disorder.
      37805500 Molecular autism, 2023 Oct 7 : 14(1)37 PMCID:PMC10559476
    • Tsang T, Naples AJ, Barney EC, Xie M, Bernier R, Dawson G, Dziura J, Faja S, Jeste SS, McPartland JC, Nelson CA, Murias M, Seow H, Sugar C, Webb SJ, Shic F, Johnson SP
      Attention Allocation During Exploration of Visual Arrays in ASD: Results from the ABC-CT Feasibility Study.
      35657448 Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2023 Aug. : 53(8)3220-3229
    • Huberty S, O'Reilly C, Carter Leno V, Steiman M, Webb S, Elsabbagh M, BASIS Team
      Neural mechanisms of language development in infancy.
      36943905 Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 2023 July : 28(4)754-770 PMCID:PMC10947526
    • Rea HM, Øien RA, Shic F, Webb SJ, Ratto AB
      Sex Differences on the ADOS-2.
      35451672 Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2023 July : 53(7)2878-2890 PMCID:PMC10074828
    • Murray SO, Kolodny T, Webb SJ
      Cortical Surface Area Relates to Distinct Computational Properties in Human Visual Perception.
      37398212 bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023 Jun 17 : PMCID:PMC10312808
    • O'Reilly C, Huberty S, van Noordt S, Desjardins J, Wright N, Scorah J, Webb SJ, BASIS team, Elsabbagh M
      EEG functional connectivity in infants at elevated familial risk for autism spectrum disorder.
      37292600 Research square, 2023 May 15 : PMCID:PMC10246278
    • Faja S, Sabatos-DeVito M, Sridhar A, Kuhn JL, Nikolaeva JI, Sugar CA, Webb SJ, Bernier RA, Sikich L, Hellemann G, Senturk D, Naples AJ, Shic F, Levin AR, Seow HA, Dziura JD, Jeste SS, Chawarska K, Nelson CA 3rd, Dawson G, McPartland JC, Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials
      Evaluation of clinical assessments of social abilities for use in autism clinical trials by the autism biomarkers consortium for clinical trials.
      36929131 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2023 May : 16(5)981-996 PMCID:PMC10192100
    • Shurtz L, Schwartz C, DiStefano C, McPartland JC, Levin AR, Dawson G, Kleinhans NM, Faja S, Webb SJ, Shic F, Naples AJ, Seow H, Bernier RA, Chawarska K, Sugar CA, Dziura J, Senturk D, Santhosh M, Jeste SS
      Concomitant medication use in children with autism spectrum disorder: Data from the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials.
      36086805 Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 2023 May : 27(4)952-966 PMCID:PMC9995606
    • Dong M, Telesca D, Sugar C, Shic F, Naples A, Johnson SP, Li B, Atyabi A, Xie M, Webb SJ, Jeste S, Faja S, Levin AR, Dawson G, McPartland JC, Şentürk D, Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials
      A functional model for studying common trends across trial time in eye tracking experiments.
      37077750 Statistics in biosciences, 2023 April : 15(1)261-287 PMCID:PMC10112660
    • Bazelmans T, Jones EJH, Ghods S, Corrigan S, Toth K, Charman T, Webb SJ
      Identifying phenotypic and physiological subgroups of preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder.
      37010226 Psychological medicine, 2023 March : 53(4)1592-1602 PMCID:PMC10009381
    • Webb SJ, Naples AJ, Levin AR, Hellemann G, Borland H, Benton J, Carlos C, McAllister T, Santhosh M, Seow H, Atyabi A, Bernier R, Chawarska K, Dawson G, Dziura J, Faja S, Jeste S, Murias M, Nelson CA, Sabatos-DeVito M, Senturk D, Shic F, Sugar CA, McPartland JC
      The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials: Initial Evaluation of a Battery of Candidate EEG Biomarkers.
      36000217 The American journal of psychiatry, 2023 Jan 1 : 180(1)41-49 PMCID:PMC10027395
    • Campos E, Wolfe Scheffler A, Telesca D, Sugar C, DiStefano C, Jeste S, Levin AR, Naples A, Webb SJ, Shic F, Dawson G, Faja S, McPartland JC, Şentürk D, Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials
      Multilevel hybrid principal components analysis for region-referenced functional electroencephalography data.
      35611602 Statistics in medicine, 2022 Aug 30 : 41(19)3737-3757 PMCID:PMC9308678
    • Pecukonis M, Young GS, Brian J, Charman T, Chawarska K, Elsabbagh M, Iverson JM, Jeste S, Landa R, Messinger DS, Schwichtenberg AJ, Webb SJ, Zwaigenbaum L, Tager-Flusberg H
      Early predictors of language skills at 3 years of age vary based on diagnostic outcome: A baby siblings research consortium study.
      35652157 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2022 July : 15(7)1324-1335 PMCID:PMC9253079
    • Sridhar A, Kuhn J, Faja S, Sabatos-DeVito M, Nikolaeva JI, Dawson G, Nelson CA, Webb SJ, Bernier R, Jeste S, Chawarska K, Sugar CA, Shic F, Naples A, Dziura J, McPartland JC, ABC-CT Consortium
      Patterns of Intervention Utilization Among School-Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Findings from a Multi-Site Research Consortium.
      35444715 Research in autism spectrum disorders, 2022 June : 94 PMCID:PMC9015686
    • Radoeva PD, Ballinger K, Ho T, Webb SJ, Stobbe GA
      Brief Report: Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Depressive Symptoms among Autistic Adults.
      34189682 Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2022 June : 52(6)2819-2824 PMCID:PMC10027384
    • Lawrence KE, Hernandez LM, Fuster E, Padgaonkar NT, Patterson G, Jung J, Okada NJ, Lowe JK, Hoekstra JN, Jack A, Aylward E, Gaab N, Van Horn JD, Bernier RA, McPartland JC, Webb SJ, Pelphrey KA, Green SA, Bookheimer SY, Geschwind DH, Dapretto M, GENDAAR Consortium
      Impact of autism genetic risk on brain connectivity: a mechanism for the female protective effect.
      34050743 Brain : a journal of neurology, 2022 Mar 29 : 145(1)378-387 PMCID:PMC8967090
    • Shic F, Naples AJ, Barney EC, Chang SA, Li B, McAllister T, Kim M, Dommer KJ, Hasselmo S, Atyabi A, Wang Q, Helleman G, Levin AR, Seow H, Bernier R, Charwaska K, Dawson G, Dziura J, Faja S, Jeste SS, Johnson SP, Murias M, Nelson CA, Sabatos-DeVito M, Senturk D, Sugar CA, Webb SJ, McPartland JC
      The autism biomarkers consortium for clinical trials: evaluation of a battery of candidate eye-tracking biomarkers for use in autism clinical trials.
      35313957 Molecular autism, 2022 Mar 21 : 13(1)15 PMCID:PMC10124777
    • Neuhaus E, Kang VY, Kresse A, Corrigan S, Aylward E, Bernier R, Bookheimer S, Dapretto M, Jack A, Jeste S, McPartland JC, Van Horn JD, Pelphrey K, Webb SJ, ACE GENDAAR Consortium
      Language and Aggressive Behaviors in Male and Female Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
      33682042 Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2022 Jan. : 52(1)454-462 PMCID:PMC9407024
    • Webb SJ, Emerman I, Sugar C, Senturk D, Naples AJ, Faja S, Benton J, Borland H, Carlos C, Levin AR, McAllister T, Santhosh M, Bernier RA, Chawarska K, Dawson G, Dziura J, Jeste S, Kleinhans N, Murias M, Sabatos-DeVito M, Shic F, McPartland JC, Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials
      Identifying Age Based Maturation in the ERP Response to Faces in Children With Autism: Implications for Developing Biomarkers for Use in Clinical Trials.
      35615454 Frontiers in psychiatry, 2022 : 13841236 PMCID:PMC9126041
    • Jacokes Z, Jack A, Sullivan CAW, Aylward E, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, Bernier RA, Geschwind DH, Sukhodolsky DG, McPartland JC, Webb SJ, Torgerson CM, Eilbott J, Kenworthy L, Pelphrey KA, Van Horn JD, GENDAAR Consortium
      Linear discriminant analysis of phenotypic data for classifying autism spectrum disorder by diagnosis and sex.
      36466170 Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 : 161040085 PMCID:PMC9709432
    • Neuhaus E, Lowry SJ, Santhosh M, Kresse A, Edwards LA, Keller J, Libsack EJ, Kang VY, Naples A, Jack A, Jeste S, McPartland JC, Aylward E, Bernier R, Bookheimer S, Dapretto M, Van Horn JD, Pelphrey K, Webb SJ, The ACE GENDAAR Network
      Resting state EEG in youth with ASD: age, sex, and relation to phenotype.
      34517813 Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders, 2021 Sep 13 : 13(1)33 PMCID:PMC8439051
    • McQuaid GA, Pelphrey KA, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, Webb SJ, Bernier RA, McPartland JC, Van Horn JD, Wallace GL
      The gap between IQ and adaptive functioning in autism spectrum disorder: Disentangling diagnostic and sex differences.
      33715473 Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 2021 Aug. : 25(6)1565-1579 PMCID:PMC8324508
    • Jack A, Sullivan CAW, Aylward E, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, Gaab N, Van Horn JD, Eilbott J, Jacokes Z, Torgerson CM, Bernier RA, Geschwind DH, McPartland JC, Nelson CA, Webb SJ, Pelphrey KA, Gupta AR, GENDAAR Consortium
      A neurogenetic analysis of female autism.
      33860292 Brain : a journal of neurology, 2021 Jul 28 : 144(6)1911-1926 PMCID:PMC8320285
    • Huberty S, Carter Leno V, van Noordt SJR, Bedford R, Pickles A, Desjardins JA, Webb SJ, BASIS Team, Elsabbagh M
      Association between spectral electroencephalography power and autism risk and diagnosis in early development.
      33955195 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2021 July : 14(7)1390-1403 PMCID:PMC8360065
    • Carter Leno V, Pickles A, van Noordt S, Huberty S, Desjardins J, Webb SJ, Elsabbagh M, BASIS Team
      12-Month peak alpha frequency is a correlate but not a longitudinal predictor of non-verbal cognitive abilities in infants at low and high risk for autism spectrum disorder.
      33714056 Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2021 April : 48100938 PMCID:PMC7966984
    • Hudac CM, Santhosh M, Celerian C, Chung KM, Jung W, Webb SJ
      The Role of Racial and Developmental Experience on Emotional Adaptive Coding in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
      33719788 Developmental neuropsychology, 2021 March : 46(2)93-108 PMCID:PMC9020541
    • Neuhaus E, Bernier RA, Webb SJ
      Social Motivation Across Multiple Measures: Caregiver-Report of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
      32929890 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2021 Feb. : 14(2)369-379 PMCID:PMC8954038
    • Harrop C, Libsack E, Bernier R, Dapretto M, Jack A, McPartland JC, Van Horn JD, Webb SJ, Pelphrey K, GENDAAR Consortium
      Do Biological Sex and Early Developmental Milestones Predict the Age of First Concerns and Eventual Diagnosis in Autism Spectrum Disorder?
      33274604 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2021 Jan. : 14(1)156-168 PMCID:PMC8023413
    • Neuhaus E, Bernier RA, Webb SJ
      Social Motivation Across Multiple Measures: Caregiver-Report of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
      32929890 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2020 Sep 14
    • Clawson A, Strang JF, Wallace GL, Gomez-Lobo V, Jack A, Webb SJ, Pelphrey KA
      Parent-Child Concordance on the Pubertal Development Scale in Typically Developing and Autistic Youth.
      32863862 Research in autism spectrum disorders, 2020 Sept. : 77 PMCID:PMC7449027
    • Lawrence KE, Hernandez LM, Bowman HC, Padgaonkar NT, Fuster E, Jack A, Aylward E, Gaab N, Van Horn JD, Bernier RA, Geschwind DH, McPartland JC, Nelson CA, Webb SJ, Pelphrey KA, Green SA, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, GENDAAR Consortium
      Sex Differences in Functional Connectivity of the Salience, Default Mode, and Central Executive Networks in Youth with ASD.
      32350530 Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2020 Jul 30 : 30(9)5107-5120 PMCID:PMC7391269
    • Lawrence KE, Hernandez LM, Eilbott J, Jack A, Aylward E, Gaab N, Van Horn JD, Bernier RA, Geschwind DH, McPartland JC, Nelson CA, Webb SJ, Pelphrey KA, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, GENDAAR Consortium
      Neural responsivity to social rewards in autistic female youth.
      32488083 Translational psychiatry, 2020 Jun 2 : 10(1)178 PMCID:PMC7266816
    • van Noordt S, Desjardins JA, Huberty S, Abou-Abbas L, Webb SJ, Levin AR, Segalowitz SJ, Evans AC, Elsabbagh M
      EEG-IP: an international infant EEG data integration platform for the study of risk and resilience in autism and related conditions.
      32380941 Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.), 2020 May 7 : 26(1)40 PMCID:PMC7203847
    • Hernandez LM, Lawrence KE, Padgaonkar NT, Inada M, Hoekstra JN, Lowe JK, Eilbott J, Jack A, Aylward E, Gaab N, Van Horn JD, Bernier RA, McPartland JC, Webb SJ, Pelphrey KA, Green SA, Geschwind DH, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, GENDAAR Consortium
      Imaging-genetics of sex differences in ASD: distinct effects of OXTR variants on brain connectivity.
      32127526 Translational psychiatry, 2020 Mar 3 : 10(1)82 PMCID:PMC7054353
    • Levin AR, Naples AJ, Scheffler AW, Webb SJ, Shic F, Sugar CA, Murias M, Bernier RA, Chawarska K, Dawson G, Faja S, Jeste S, Nelson CA, McPartland JC, Åžentürk D
      Day-to-Day Test-Retest Reliability of EEG Profiles in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typical Development.
      32425762 Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2020 : 1421 PMCID:PMC7204836
    • Levin AR, Naples AJ, Scheffler AW, Webb SJ, Shic F, Sugar CA, Murias M, Bernier RA, Chawarska K, Dawson G, Faja S, Jeste S, Nelson CA, McPartland JC, Şentürk D
      Day-to-Day Test-Retest Reliability of EEG Profiles in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typical Development.
      32425762 Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2020 : 1421 PMCID:PMC7204836
    • McPartland JC, Bernier RA, Jeste SS, Dawson G, Nelson CA, Chawarska K, Earl R, Faja S, Johnson SP, Sikich L, Brandt CA, Dziura JD, Rozenblit L, Hellemann G, Levin AR, Murias M, Naples AJ, Platt ML, Sabatos-DeVito M, Shic F, Senturk D, Sugar CA, Webb SJ, Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials.
      The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT): Scientific Context, Study Design, and Progress Toward Biomarker Qualification.
      32346363 Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2020 : 1416 PMCID:PMC7173348
    • Neuhaus E, Webb SJ, Bernier RA
      Linking social motivation with social skill: The role of emotion dysregulation in autism spectrum disorder.
      30957732 Development and psychopathology, 2019 Aug. : 31(3)931-943
    • Bazelmans T, Jones EJH, Ghods S, Corrigan S, Toth K, Charman T, Webb SJ
      Heart rate mean and variability as a biomarker for phenotypic variation in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder.
      30114343 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2019 Jan. : 12(1)39-52
    • Arnett AB, Hudac CM, DesChamps TD, Cairney BE, Gerdts J, Wallace AS, Bernier RA, Webb SJ
      Auditory perception is associated with implicit language learning and receptive language ability in autism spectrum disorder.
      30312833 Brain and language, 2018 Dec. : 1871-8
    • Neuhaus E, Beauchaine TP, Bernier RA, Webb SJ
      Child and family characteristics moderate agreement between caregiver and clinician report of autism symptoms.
      29251835 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2018 March : 11(3)476-487 PMCID:PMC5867206
    • Neuhaus E, Bernier RA, Tham SW, Webb SJ
      Gastrointestinal and Psychiatric Symptoms Among Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder.
      30405456 Frontiers in psychiatry, 2018 : 9515 PMCID:PMC6204460
    • Webb SJ, Neuhaus E, Faja S
      Face perception and learning in autism spectrum disorders.
      26886246 Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 2017 May : 70(5)970-986 PMCID:PMC5026554
    • Jones EJ, Venema K, Earl RK, Lowy R, Webb SJ
      Infant social attention: an endophenotype of ASD-related traits?
      27861851 Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2017 March : 58(3)270-281
    • Webb SJ, Garrison MM, Bernier R, McClintic AM, King BH, Mourad PD
      Severity of ASD symptoms and their correlation with the presence of copy number variations and exposure to first trimester ultrasound.
      27582229 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2017 March : 10(3)472-484 PMCID:PMC5332517
    • Charman T, Young GS, Brian J, Carter A, Carver LJ, Chawarska K, Curtin S, Dobkins K, Elsabbagh M, Georgiades S, Hertz-Picciotto I, Hutman T, Iverson JM, Jones EJ, Landa R, Macari S, Messinger DS, Nelson CA, Ozonoff S, Saulnier C, Stone WL, Tager-Flusberg H, Webb SJ, Yirmiya N, Zwaigenbaum L
      Non-ASD outcomes at 36 months in siblings at familial risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A baby siblings research consortium (BSRC) study.
      27417857 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2017 Jan. : 10(1)169-178
    • Hudac CM, Stessman HAF, DesChamps TD, Kresse A, Faja S, Neuhaus E, Webb SJ, Eichler EE, Bernier RA
      Exploring the heterogeneity of neural social indices for genetically distinct etiologies of autism.
      28559932 Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders, 2017 : 924 PMCID:PMC5446693
    • Garman HD, Spaulding CJ, Webb SJ, Mikami AY, Morris JP, Lerner MD
      Wanting it Too Much: An Inverse Relation Between Social Motivation and Facial Emotion Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
      26743637 Child psychiatry and human development, 2016 Dec. : 47(6)890-902 PMCID:PMC4936965
    • Faja S, Clarkson T, Webb SJ
      Neural and behavioral suppression of interfering flankers by children with and without autism spectrum disorder.
      27825750 Neuropsychologia, 2016 Dec. : 93(Pt A)251-261 PMCID:PMC5154614
    • Navot N, Jorgenson AG, Vander Stoep A, Toth K, Webb SJ
      Family planning and family vision in mothers after diagnosis of a child with autism spectrum disorder.
      26395237 Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 2016 July : 20(5)605-15 PMCID:PMC4981328
    • Neuhaus E, Jones EJ, Barnes K, Sterling L, Estes A, Munson J, Dawson G, Webb SJ
      The Relationship Between Early Neural Responses to Emotional Faces at Age 3 and Later Autism and Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescents with Autism.
      27055415 Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2016 July : 46(7)2450-63 PMCID:PMC5305034
    • Neuhaus E, Kresse A, Faja S, Bernier RA, Webb SJ
      Face processing among twins with and without autism: social correlates and twin concordance.
      26137974 Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2016 Jan. : 11(1)44-54 PMCID:PMC4692310
    • Jones EJ, Venema K, Lowy R, Earl RK, Webb SJ
      Developmental changes in infant brain activity during naturalistic social experiences.
      26219834 Developmental psychobiology, 2015 Nov. : 57(7)842-53 PMCID:PMC4615531
    • Webb SJ, Bernier R, Henderson HA, Johnson MH, Jones EJ, Lerner MD, McPartland JC, Nelson CA, Rojas DC, Townsend J, Westerfield M
      Guidelines and best practices for electrophysiological data collection, analysis and reporting in autism.
      23975145 Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2015 Feb. : 45(2)425-43 PMCID:PMC4141903
    • Messinger DS, Young GS, Webb SJ, Ozonoff S, Bryson SE, Carter A, Carver L, Charman T, Chawarska K, Curtin S, Dobkins K, Hertz-Picciotto I, Hutman T, Iverson JM, Landa R, Nelson CA, Stone WL, Tager-Flusberg H, Zwaigenbaum L
      Early sex differences are not autism-specific: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium (BSRC) study.
      26045943 Molecular autism, 2015 : 632 PMCID:PMC4455973
    • Hudac CM, Kresse A, Aaronson B, DesChamps TD, Webb SJ, Bernier RA
      Modulation of mu attenuation to social stimuli in children and adults with 16p11.2 deletions and duplications.
      26213586 Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders, 2015 : 7(1)25 PMCID:PMC4514956
    • Webb SJ, Jones EJ, Kelly J, Dawson G
      The motivation for very early intervention for infants at high risk for autism spectrum disorders.
      24410019 International journal of speech-language pathology, 2014 Feb. : 16(1)36-42 PMCID:PMC4141560
    • Kodish I, Rockhill CM, Webb SJ
      ASD: Psychopharmacologic Treatments and Neurophysiologic Underpinnings.
      24683058 Current topics in behavioral neurosciences, 2014 : 21257-75 PMCID:PMC4180816
    • Dawson G, Jones EJ, Merkle K, Venema K, Lowy R, Faja S, Kamara D, Murias M, Greenson J, Winter J, Smith M, Rogers SJ, Webb SJ
      Early behavioral intervention is associated with normalized brain activity in young children with autism.
      23101741 Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2012 Nov. : 51(11)1150-9
    • Webb SJ, Merkle K, Murias M, Richards T, Aylward E, Dawson G
      ERP responses differentiate inverted but not upright face processing in adults with ASD.
      19454620 Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2012 June : 7(5)578-87 PMCID:PMC3375882
    • Faja S, Webb SJ, Jones E, Merkle K, Kamara D, Bavaro J, Aylward E, Dawson G
      The effects of face expertise training on the behavioral performance and brain activity of adults with high functioning autism spectrum disorders.
      21484517 Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2012 Feb. : 42(2)278-93
    • Webb SJ, Jones EJ, Merkle K, Venema K, Greenson J, Murias M, Dawson G
      Developmental change in the ERP responses to familiar faces in toddlers with autism spectrum disorders versus typical development.
      22004249 Child development, 2011 Nov. : 82(6)1868-86
    • Webb SJ, Jones EJ, Merkle K, Murias M, Greenson J, Richards T, Aylward E, Dawson G
      Response to familiar faces, newly familiar faces, and novel faces as assessed by ERPs is intact in adults with autism spectrum disorders.
      20452382 International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology, 2010 Aug. : 77(2)106-17 PMCID:PMC2902604
    • Dawson G, Webb SJ, McPartland J
      Understanding the nature of face processing impairment in autism: insights from behavioral and electrophysiological studies.
      15843104 Developmental neuropsychology, 2005 : 403-24
    • Belmonte MK, Allen G, Beckel-Mitchener A, Boulanger LM, Carper RA, Webb SJ
      Autism and abnormal development of brain connectivity.
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    • Dawson G, Carver L, Meltzoff AN, Panagiotides H, McPartland J, Webb SJ
      Neural correlates of face and object recognition in young children with autism spectrum disorder, developmental delay, and typical development.
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  • Research Funding

    Grant Title Grantor Amount Award Date
    Attention Allocation as a Computational Mechanism for Altered Sensory Processing in Autism NIMH 2023 - 2028
    Efficacy of external trigeminal nerve stimulation for treatment of ADHD NIMH 2022 - 2027
    L16HTHOUSE. A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of the Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of Arbaclofen in Subjects with 16p11.2 deletion (16p del) Clinical Research Associates, Simons Foundation 2020 - 2026
    Exploratory Biomarkers of EEG response in children with 16p11.2 deletions Clinical Research Associates, Simons Foundation 2020 - 2026
    Attentional attributes of early child media usage NICHD 2019 - 2022
    Testing a computational model of neural responses in autism NIMH 2019 - 2024
    Parsing ASD heterogeneity: Neuroendophenotypes of social attention and sensory responsivity NIMH 2018 - 2024
    U19 Consortium on biomarker and outcome measures of social impairment for use in clinical trials in autism spectrum disorders NIMH 2015 - 2026
    ACE Multimodal developmental Neurogenetics of females with ASD NIMH 2012 - 2022
    Complex versus Essential Autism: A Developmental Study of Risk NIMH

Overview

Research Description

My work is focused on developing biomarkers of nervous system functioning across the lifespan, using methodologies such as electroencephalography (EEG), event-related potentials (ERP), eye tracking, cardiophysiology (EKG), functional magnetic resonance imaging and behavioral measures.  

Our research program is part of the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials, the GENDAAR study of females/girls/women with ASD, the WONDER study of risk for autism in infants, the ADHD-GEMS study of Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation for ADHD, and L16HTHOUSE clinical trial for children with 16p11.2 deletion syndrome, as well as a number of other projects investigating the relation between genetics, brain functioning, and the trajectory of autism symptoms and behaviors.

Research Focus Area

Neuroscience / Neurodevelopment