Mirella Dapretto

Biographic Data

ID6098446
NAMEMirella Dapretto
GIVEN NAMESMirella
FAMILY NAMEDapretto
SIGNATUREDAPRETTO M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
ORCID0000-0003-2914-6858
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Functional connectivity of the sensorimotor cerebellum in autism

    Open AccessMelis E Cakar, Nana J Okada et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    The cerebellum has been consistently shown to be atypical in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, despite its known role in sensorimotor function, there is limited research on its association with sensory over-responsivity (SOR), a common and impairing feature of ASD. Thus, this study sought to examine functional connectivity of the sensorimotor cerebellum in ASD compared to typically developing (TD) youth and investigate whether cerebellar c…

  • Atypical cerebellar functional connectivity at 9 months of age predicts delayed socio‐communicative profiles in infants at high and low risk for autism

    Open AccessNana J Okada, Janelle Liu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2022

    BACKGROUND: While the cerebellum is traditionally known for its role in sensorimotor control, emerging research shows that particular subregions, such as right Crus I (RCrusI), support language and social processing. Indeed, cerebellar atypicalities are commonly reported in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by socio-communicative impairments. However, the cerebellum's contribution to early socio-communica…

  • Associations between physiological and neural measures of sensory reactivity in youth with autism

    Open AccessJiwon Jung, Tomislav D Zbozinek et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2021

    BACKGROUND: Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) commonly show sensory over-responsivity (SOR), an impairing condition related to over-reactive brain and behavioral responses to aversive stimuli. While individuals with ASD often show atypically high physiological arousal, it is unclear how this relates to sensory reactivity. We therefore investigated how physiological arousal relates to brain and behavioral indices of SOR, to inform un…

  • Social Attention in Autism

    Open AccessLeanna M Hernandez, Shulamite A Green et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by lack of attention to social cues in the environment, including speech. Hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli, such as loud noises, is also extremely common in youth with ASD. While a link between sensory hypersensitivity and impaired social functioning has been hypothesized, very little is known about the neural mechanisms whereby exposure to distracting sensory stimul…

  • Exploring Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System Over the Year Following First Arrest

    Open AccessNamita Tanya Padgaonkar, Amanda E Baker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2020Cited by: 5References: 10

    Minority youth are disproportionately represented in the juvenile justice system. Examining how racial disparities relate to biased entry into and continued involvement with the system, while accounting for past and current offending, can provide context about the mechanisms behind overrepresentation. 1,216 adolescents were examined after first arrest to explore associations between race and history of self-reported offending, likelihood of forma…

  • Broadening the Impact of Developmental Neuroscience on the Study of Adolescence

    Open AccessAndrew J Fuligni, Mirella Dapretto et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2018Cited by: 1References: 5

    Having been a significance source of the renewed interested in the adolescent period, developmental neuroscience now needs to build upon its achievements to date and expand in several areas in order to broaden its impact upon the field. Addressing both typical and atypical development, examining the interaction between brain development and the social environment, studying change over time, and including attention to population diversity can help…

  • Development of conscientiousness in childhood and adolescence

    Open AccessAllison Mary Tackman, Sanjay Srivastava et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2017Cited by: 3References: 60

  • The Power of the Like in Adolescence

    Open AccessLauren E Sherman, Ashley A Payton et al.ARTICLEPsychological Science2016

    We investigated a unique way in which adolescent peer influence occurs on social media. We developed a novel functional MRI (fMRI) paradigm to simulate Instagram, a popular social photo-sharing tool, and measured adolescents’ behavioral and neural responses to likes, a quantifiable form of social endorsement and potential source of peer influence. Adolescents underwent fMRI while viewing photos ostensibly submitted to Instagram. They were more li…

  • Atypical Neural Processing of Ironic and Sincere Remarks in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Natalie L Colich, Audrey-Ting Wang et al.ARTICLEMetaphor and Symbol2012

    Individuals with ASD show consistent impairment in processing pragmatic language when attention to multiple social cues (e.g., facial expression, tone of voice) is often needed to navigate social interactions. Building upon prior fMRI work examining how facial affect and prosodic cues are used to infer a speaker's communicative intent, the authors examined whether children and adolescents with ASD differ from typically developing (TD) controls in…