Joseph Piven, M.D.
Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology and Director, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities | UNC-Chapel Hill
Raleigh-Durham, NC, UNITED STATES
Dr. Piven's research focuses on developmental disabilities/autism.
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Biography
Joseph Piven is Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at UNC Chapel Hill, where is also Director of the UNC Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.
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Areas of Expertise (7)
Psychiatry
Psychology
Pediatrics
Brain Imaging
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri)
Developmental Disabilities
Autism
Accomplishments (2)
Independent Scientist Award (professional)
1998 - 2003 Awarded by the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH)
Scientist Developmental Award for Clinicians (KO1) (professional)
1992 - 1997 Awarded by the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH)
Education (4)
Johns Hopkins Hospital: Residency, Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry 1986
University of Maryland Medical School: M.D., Medicine 1981
University of Maryland, College Park: B.S., Psychology 1976
Johns Hopkins Hospital: Postdoc, Psychiatric Genetics 1988
Affiliations (4)
- UNC NIH T32 Post Doctoral Research Training Program : Co-Director
- NICHD Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center : Director
- North Carolina University Center of Excellence : Director
- NIH ACE Network – Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS) : Director
Media Appearances (4)
Adult, Autistic and Ignored
The New York Times online
2015-09-05
As Dr. Joseph Piven, a professor of psychiatry, pediatrics and psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has put it, “There is almost no literature on older adults with autism in the field, so we have virtually no knowledge base.”...
Adults with autism and the risk of Parkinson’s: an author Q+A
BioMed Central online
2015-09-03
Research published in Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders has investigated the risk of adults with autism developing Parkinson’s disease. In this Q+A, Joseph Piven and his co-authors explain more about their findings, as well as why more research is needed in the field...
Adults with autism are at risk for host of health problems
Sectrum News online
2015-05-16
The number of adults on the spectrum is rising. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated in 2010 that 1 in 68 children have autism, up from 1 in 150 just eight years before. So these health problems will affect a growing slice of society. “This is a major public health issue and will only be exacerbated by the aging of our western populations,” says Joseph Piven, professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who was not involved with the study...
MRIs link impaired brain activity to inability to regulate emotions in autism
Medical Press online
2015-01-27
The Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, directed by Joseph Piven, MD, is the umbrella program for autism research at UNC, which ranked second worldwide for the number of autism-related scientific papers published in 2012, the last time an intergovernmental agency issued the ranking...
Articles (5)
Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders
Nature
2010 The autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are a group of conditions characterized by impairments in reciprocal social interaction and communication, and the presence of restricted and repetitive behaviours Individuals with an ASD vary greatly in cognitive ...
Autism genome-wide copy number variation reveals ubiquitin and neuronal genes
Nature
2009 ABSTRACT: Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are childhood neurodevelopmental disorders with complex genetic origins. Previous studies focusing on candidate genes or genomic regions have identified several copy number variations (CNVs) that are ...
Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements
Nature Genetics
2007 ABSTRACT: Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are common, heritable neurodevelopmental conditions. The genetic architecture of ASDs is complex, requiring large samples to overcome heterogeneity. Here we broaden coverage and sample size relative to other ...
User-guided 3D active contour segmentation of anatomical structures: significantly improved efficiency and reliability
Neuroimage
2006 Active contour segmentation and its robust implementation using level set methods are well-established theoretical approaches that have been studied thoroughly in the image analysis literature. Despite the existence of these powerful segmentation methods, the needs of ...
Visual scanning of faces in autism
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
2002 ABSTRACT: The visual scanpaths of five high-functioning adult autistic males and five adult male controls were recorded using an infrared corneal reflection technique as they viewed photographs of human faces. Analyses of the scanpath data revealed marked differences ...
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