Denis G. Sukhodolsky, Ph.D.

Professor, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine

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Denis G. Sukhodolsky is a professor at the Yale University School of Medicine and director of the Evidence-Based Practice Unit at the Yale Child Study Center. His research concerns the efficacy and neural mechanisms of behavioral treatments for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Sukhodolsky is principal investigator of a study of cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety in children with ASD that is funded by an R01 award from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and a SFARI-funded study of pivotal response training with oxytocin. He has also served as an investigator in the Research Units of Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism Network studies of parent training for irritability and noncompliance in children with ASD.

In addition to his research, Sukhodolsky is a licensed and board-certified clinical psychologist working with children and their families at the Yale Child Study Center.

Funded Projects

Combining pivotal response treatment with intranasal oxytocin to improve social reciprocity in children with ASD

Awarded: 2018
Award Type: Research

SFARI Funded Publications

Altered neural connectivity in females, but not males with autism: Preliminary evidence for the female protective effect from a quality-controlled diffusion tensor imaging study. Lei J., Lecarie E., Jurayj J., Boland S., Sukhodolsky D., Ventola P., Pelphrey K., Jou R. J.

Brain responses to biological motion predict treatment outcome in young children with autism. Yang D., Pelphrey K., Sukhodolsky D., Crowley M.J., Dayan E., Dvornek N.C., Venkataraman A., Duncan J., Staib L., Ventola P.

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