Emily Elizabeth Neuhaus, PHD

Emily Elizabeth Neuhaus, PHD

Autism Center

On staff since June 2016

Children's Title: Clinical Psychologist

Academic Title: Assistant Professor

Research Center: Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development

"As a clinician working with families, my goal is to offer care and support that brings together our scientific understanding of autism with warmth, genuine empathy, and respect for all families. In my research, I strive to deepen our knowledge of autism so we can better understand its causes and how it affects the everyday experiences of children and families. I feel lucky to work with children and families in both of these roles!"

  • Biography

    Dr. Emily Neuhaus is a licensed clinical psychologist at Seattle Childrens and Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. Dr. Neuhaus completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington, with a clinical internship at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and degrees from the University of Oregon. As a psychologist, Dr. Neuhaus provides direct clinical care for children and families at the Seattle Children's Autism Center. As a researcher, her interests focus on understanding social and emotional factors in autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions, including the biological systems that underlie these abilities, ways in which environmental factors might influence and interact with these systems, and how intervention strategies might support behavioral and biological well-being.

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  • Awards and Honors

    Award Name Award Description Awarded By Award Date
    Early Career Workshop Travel Award International Society for Autism Research 2016
    Fellow and Resident Research Day Outstanding Presentation Award Seattle Children's 2015
    Meixner Translational Postdoctoral Fellowship Autism Speaks 2013

  • Publications

    Manuscripts in Refereed Journals

    • Neuhaus E, Osuna A, Tagavi DM, Shah-Hosseini S, Simmons S, Gerdts J, Thompson AD
      Clinical Characteristics of Youth with Autism or Developmental Disability during Inpatient Psychiatric Admission.
      36362556 Journal of clinical medicine, 2022 Oct 27 : 11(21) PMCID:PMC9658441
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Kamara D, De Boeck P, Lecavalier L, Neuhaus E, Beauchaine TP
      Characterizing Sleep Problems in 16p11.2 Deletion and Duplication.
      34633643 Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2021 Oct 11
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Frasch MG, Shen C, Wu HT, Mueller A, Neuhaus E, Bernier RA, Kamara D, Beauchaine TP
      Brief Report: Can a Composite Heart Rate Variability Biomarker Shed New Insights About Autism Spectrum Disorder in School-Aged Children?
      32449059 Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2021 Jan. : 51(1)346-356
    • 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
    • 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 PMCID:PMC8148424
    • 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
    • Velasquez F, Qin XA, Reilly MA, Neuhaus E, Estes A, Aylward E, Kleinhans NM
      Neural correlates of emotional inhibitory control in autism spectrum disorders.
      28359873 Research in developmental disabilities, 2017 May : 6464-77
    • 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
    • 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
    • Prat CS, Stocco A, Neuhaus E, Kleinhans NM
      Basal ganglia impairments in autism spectrum disorder are related to abnormal signal gating to prefrontal cortex.
      27542318 Neuropsychologia, 2016 Oct. : 91268-281
    • 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
    • Kleinhans NM, Reiter MA, Neuhaus E, Pauley G, Martin N, Dager S, Estes A
      Subregional differences in intrinsic amygdala hyperconnectivity and hypoconnectivity in autism spectrum disorder.
      26666502 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2016 July : 9(7)760-72 PMCID:PMC4909596
    • Neuhaus E, Bernier RA, Beauchaine TP
      Children with Autism Show Altered Autonomic Adaptation to Novel and Familiar Social Partners.
      26305051 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2016 May : 9(5)579-91
    • 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
    • Neuhaus E, Bernier RA, Beauchaine TP
      Electrodermal Response to Reward and Non-Reward Among Children With Autism.
      25599655 Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2015 Aug. : 8(4)357-70
    • Beauchaine TP, Neuhaus E, Gatzke-Kopp LM, Reid MJ, Chipman J, Brekke A, Olliges A, Shoemaker S, Webster-Stratton C
      Electrodermal responding predicts responses to, and may be altered by, preschool intervention for ADHD.
      25486374 Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2015 April : 83(2)293-303
    • Neuhaus E, Bernier R, Beauchaine TP
      Brief report: social skills, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia in autism.
      23982488 Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2014 March : 44(3)730-7
    • Beauchaine TP, Gatzke-Kopp L, Neuhaus E, Chipman J, Reid MJ, Webster-Stratton C
      Sympathetic- and parasympathetic-linked cardiac function and prediction of externalizing behavior, emotion regulation, and prosocial behavior among preschoolers treated for ADHD.
      23544677 Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2013 June : 81(3)481-93 PMCID:PMC3952490
    • Kleinhans NM, Pauley G, Richards T, Neuhaus E, Martin N, Corrigan NM, Shaw DW, Estes A, Dager SR
      Age-related abnormalities in white matter microstructure in autism spectrum disorders.
      22902768 Brain research, 2012 Oct 15 : 14791-16 PMCID:PMC3513400
    • Beauchaine TP, Neuhaus E, Zalewski M, Crowell SE, Potapova N
      The effects of allostatic load on neural systems subserving motivation, mood regulation, and social affiliation.
      22018077 Development and psychopathology, 2011 Nov. : 23(4)975-99
    • Neuhaus E, Beauchaine TP, Bernier R
      Neurobiological correlates of social functioning in autism.
      20570622 Clinical psychology review, 2010 Aug. : 30(6)733-48
    • Beauchaine TP, Neuhaus E, Brenner SL, Gatzke-Kopp L
      Ten good reasons to consider biological processes in prevention and intervention research.
      18606030 Development and psychopathology, 2008 : 20(3)745-74 PMCID:PMC2690981

    Book Chapters

    • Neuhaus, E., & Beauchaine, T.P.
      Impulsivity and vulnerability to psychopathology
      Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 2018
    • Neuhaus, E., & Beauchaine, T.P.
      Impulsivity and vulnerability to psychopathology
      Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 2013
    • Neuhaus, E.
      Emotion dysregulation in autism spectrum disorders
      Oxford Handbook of Emotion Dysregulation

    Other Publications

    • Adam MP, Everman DB, Mirzaa GM, Pagon RA, Wallace SE, Bean LJH, Gripp KW, Amemiya A, Mitchel MW, Myers SM, Heidlebaugh AR, Taylor CM, Rea H, Neuhaus E, Kurtz-Nelson EC, Earl R, Bernier R, Ledbetter DH, Martin CL, Eichler EE
      CHD8-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder with Overgrowth.
      36302072 2022

  • Presentations

    Presentation Title Event Location Date
    Linking social motivation to social skill: Contributions of anxiety and impulsivity International Meeting for Autism Research Baltimore, MD 2016
    Child characteristics as moderators of parent-clinician agreement on autism symptoms International Meeting for Autism Research Salt Lake City, UT 2015
    Longitudinal prediction of social and emotional outcomes in adolescents with autism: Contributions of face processing at age 3 years 12th Annual Fellow and Resident Research Day, Seattle Childrens Seattle, WA 2015
    Face processing and parent anxiety during early childhood interact to predict adolescent anxiety in autism spectrum disorder Society for Psychophysiological Research Seattle, WA 2015
    Face processing and parent anxiety during early childhood interact to predict adolescent anxiety in autism spectrum disorder Society for Psychophysiological Research Seattle, WA 2014
    Concordance in social functioning and cognition among twins with and without autism International Meeting for Autism Research Atlanta, GA 2014
    Physiological responses to social and non-social reward in autism International Meeting for Autism Research Toronto, CA 2012

  • Research Funding

    Grant Title Grantor Amount Award Date
    Meixner Translational Postdoctoral Fellowship Autism Speaks 2013 - 2015

Overview

Medical/Professional School

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Fellowship

Seattle Children's Hospital/Research/Foundation, Seattle, WA
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Research Description

My overarching research goal is to explore social-emotional processes in ASD and related neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., rare genetic events, intellectual disability). Within this, I aim to better characterize neurobiological functioning underlying social and emotional experiences, explore developmental trajectories of social-emotional functioning as children and adolescents grow, and understand the role of individual differences in these factors. My research draws on a range of methodological approaches, including structured assessment, self- and caregiver-report, and neurobiological methods (EEG).

Research Focus Area

Autism Spectrum Disorders, Behavioral / Mental Health, Neuroscience / Neurodevelopment