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Jim Bodfish, Ph.D.

Professor

Bodfish

 
Office Phone:  (919) 966-4896
 
 
 
Education:
 
BA, Psychology, University of New Haven
 
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, University of Alabama
 
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Behavioral Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Kennedy Shriver Center for Mental Retardation Research

 

Summary Statement:

Dr. Bodfish works with children and adults with autism and related developmental disorders. He has a focus on the integration of behavioral and medication therapies for the treatment of severe behavior disorders (e.g. stereotypies, rituals, self-injury, aggression, overactivity). He provides internship, post-doctoral and residency training through the UNC Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center, in the areas of psychopharmacology, behavioral assessment, and behavior therapy for developmental disorders. His research focuses on the phenomenology, neurobiology, and treatment of ritualistic, repetitive behaviors.

 

Representative Publications:

  1. Bodfish, J.W. & Lewis, M.H.: Self-injury and comorbid behavior in developmental, neurological, psychiatric, and genetic disorders. In S. Schroeder, M. Oster-Granite, & T. Thompson (Eds.). Self-injurious Behavior: Gene-Brain-Behavior Relationships. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press, 2002.
  2. Symons, F.J., Sutton, K., Walker, C. & Bodfish, J.W.: Altered diurnal pattern of substance P concentrations in adults with mental retardation and self-injury. American Journal of Mental Retardation, 108, 13-18, 2003.
  3. Bodfish, J.W., Symons, F.J., Parker, D.E., & Lewis, M.H.: Varieties of repetitive behavior in autism: Comparison to mental retardation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 30, 237-243, 2000.
  4. Sandler, A.D., Sutton, K.A., Deweese, J., Girardi, M.A., Sheppard, V., & Bodfish, J.W.: Lack of benefit of synthetic human secretin in the treatment of autism and pervasive developmental disabilities. The New England Journal of Medicine, 341, 1801-1806, 1999.
  5. Lewis, M.H., Bodfish, J.W., Powell, S.B., & Golden, R.N.: Clomipramine treatment for stereotypy and related repetitive movement disorders in mental retardation: A double blind comparison with placebo. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 100 (3), 299-312, 1995.