Elizabeth G. Smith, PhD
- Clinical Psychologist, Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology
- Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
About
Bachelor of Science: Psychology, specialty in Neuroscience, Duke University,
Undergraduate Research Assistant: Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; focused on infant development, autism, and neuroimaging.
PhD: Clinical Psychology, University of Rochester, under mentorship of Dr. Loisa Bennetto; studied the relation between sensory perception and language in autism.
Postdoctoral training: National Institutes of Health with Dr. Audrey Thurm; focused on neuroimaging, including both MRI and fNIRS, in young children with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Postdoctoral training: with Dr. Nathan Fox at the University of Maryland at College Park in multimodal neuroimaging with NIRS and EEG.
Interests
Very young children with fragile X syndrome; how symptoms related to sensory processing, language, cognition, and anxiety emerge over the first five years of life; differential diagnosis of symptoms seen in neurodevelopmental disorders, including those seen in autism, anxiety, mood disorders, ADHD, and other behavioral health concerns.
Services and Specialties
Interests
How brain development, a child's environment, and individual variability interact to drive phenotypic variability/outcomes for children with neurodevelopmental disorders; how hearing, auditory sensitivity, and neural responses to speech and nonspeech sounds are related to language development in infants and toddlers with fragile X syndrome.
Research Areas
Publications
Brain Morphometry of Toddlers With Language Delay: An Exploratory Study. Infant and Child Development. 2025; 34.
Specialization of the brain for language in children with Fragile X Syndrome: a functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy study. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 2024; 16:69.
Reliability of resting-state electrophysiology in fragile X syndrome. Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatry. 2023; 9:100070.
Results of a phase Ib study of SB-121, an investigational probiotic formulation, a randomized controlled trial in participants with autism spectrum disorder. Scientific Reports. 2023; 13:5192.
Posterior superior temporal cortex connectivity is related to social communication in toddlers. Infant Behavior and Development. 2023; 71:101831.
Systematic Review: Emotion Dysregulation in Syndromic Causes of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2023; 62:518-557.
Neocortical localization and thalamocortical modulation of neuronal hyperexcitability contribute to Fragile X Syndrome. Communications Biology. 2022; 5:442.
Observable Symptoms of Anxiety in Individuals with Fragile X Syndrome: Parent and Caregiver Perspectives. Genes. 2022; 13:1660.
Infant temperament prospectively predicts general psychopathology in childhood. Development and Psychopathology. 2022; 34:774-783.
Structured sparse multiset canonical correlation analysis of simultaneous fNIRS and EEG provides new insights into the human action-observation network. Scientific Reports. 2022; 12:6878.
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