Giulia Righi

About

Giulia Righi is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, with a background in cognitive neuroscience. Her initial research focused on understanding the neural basis of face and language processing in non-clinical populations. This work led her to explore populations with compromised face and language processing systems, particularly individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she expanded her methodological skills and gained exposure to both research and clinical aspects of psychopathologies. Her clinical training, including an APA-approved internship and postdoctoral fellowship, involved working with children and adolescents in various clinical settings, providing assessments and treatments, and integrating research with clinical practice. Her expertise in this area culminated in her current position, which combines research and clinical work at Bradley Hospital and the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her research interests include psychiatric comorbidities, especially in the context of ASD, developmental disabilities, and anxiety disorders such as OCD. She holds a PhD from Brown University and a BS from Brown University, and is licensed as a psychologist in Rhode Island.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Psychiatry
• Psychology
• Environmental health
• Clinical psychology
• Geography
• Pathology
• Pediatrics
• Demography

Selected publications

• Emotion Dysregulation is Substantially Elevated in Autism Compared to the General Population: Impact on Psychiatric Services

  Autism Research · 2020 · 112 citations

  = 567) completed a battery of questionnaires about their child. The prevalence of ER impairment was significantly higher in the ASD groups compared to the nationally representative sample and highest in the psychiatric Inpatient ASD group. The community ASD and inpatient ASD samples were four and seven times more likely, respectively, to exceed clinical cutoffs for emotional reactivity than the general US sample. Similarly, history of psychiatric hospitalization, recent emergency services use (p…

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• A Comparative Study of Suicidality and Its Association with Emotion Regulation Impairment in Large ASD and US Census-Matched Samples

  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · 2020 · 70 citations

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• Sensitivity to audio‐visual synchrony and its relation to language abilities in children with and without ASD

  Autism Research · 2018-01-13 · 61 citations

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  Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is often accompanied by deficits in speech and language processing. Speech processing relies heavily on the integration of auditory and visual information, and it has been suggested that the ability to detect correspondence between auditory and visual signals helps to lay the foundation for successful language development. The goal of the present study was to examine whether young children with ASD show reduced sensitivity to temporal asynchronies in a speech proce…

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• Autism Heterogeneity in a Densely Sampled U.S. Population: Results From the First 1,000 Participants in the RI‐CART Study

  Autism Research · 2020 · 52 citations

  The objective of this study was to establish a large, densely sampled, U.S. population-based cohort of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The Rhode Island Consortium for Autism Research and Treatment (RI-CART) represents a unique public-private-academic collaboration involving all major points of service for families in Rhode Island affected by ASD. Diagnosis was based on direct behavioral observation via the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition. For the first 1,000 pa…

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• Gender Differences in Emotion Dysregulation in an Autism Inpatient Psychiatric Sample

  Autism Research · 2020-03-28 · 37 citations

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  There is a wide range of emotion regulation (ER)-related impairment observed in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which is associated with both internalizing and externalizing problems. Although the importance of ER is widely acknowledged in the ASD literature, little is known about factors associated with variability in ER impairment. Given the identified gender differences in ASD, gender may be a potential contributor to ER. This study examined gender differences in ER in an ASD inpatient psychi…

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Recent grants

• COBRE Center for Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

  NIH · $17.9M · 2021–2027

Frequent coauthors

• Stephen J. Sheinkopf

  Cohort (United Kingdom)

  65 shared

• Elena J. Tenenbaum

  Duke University

  32 shared

• Eric M. Morrow

  Bradley Hospital

  30 shared

• Kristen Benito

  28 shared

• Erin O’Connor

  John Brown University

  28 shared

• Danielle Sipsock

  Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island

  26 shared

• Beth A. Jerskey

  Providence College

  23 shared

• Michael J. Tarr

  Carnegie Mellon University

  22 shared

Labs

• Righi, GiuliaPI

Education

• Ph.D.

  Brown University

  2009

• B.S.

  Brown University

  2004

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